From President Donald J. Trump:
Editor’s note: Big Tent Ideas always aims to provide balancing perspectives on the hottest issues of the day. Below is a column arguing that former President Donald Trump should be the candidate to lead the Republican Party into 2024. A counterpoint can be found here, where former senior Trump adviser Christian Whiton argues that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ landslide victory in the 2022 midterms proves Trump is no longer fit to lead the Republican Party.
I can rattle you off statistics about how much better America was two years ago. Gas prices were roughly half of what they are now. There was about a third less fentanyl crossing the border. We were also not on the brink of nuclear war with Russia.
You know how much better life was under President Donald Trump than Biden, you don’t need me to tell you that. It’s time now, though, to look to the future.
The job President Trump started was not finished. Only Trump can be trusted to enact the “America First” agenda he ran on in 2016. We won’t accept any imitation. Despite what many Washington, D.C., conservative elites want you to believe, we are not in the “post-Trump era” or close to it. We are still in the midst of the revolution started by Trump when he rode down that golden escalator.
Just look at who is lined up against Trump already in the 2024 primary. It’s folks like Paul Ryan or billionaire mega-donor Ken Griffin, who is planning to back a Trump challenge. Politico reports Griffin “wants to … blunt the vein of populism that has complicated the party’s relationship with the corporate world.”
This is why a Trump 2024 run is so necessary. We know that he will continue to disrupt and serve the people against the Swamp.
Read the full article from the Daily Caller here.
