—his 2024 presidential announcement was something of a relatively sober policy address, even if it included his typical litany of falsehoods, exaggerations and non sequiturs.
Most notably, Trump refrained from promoting lies about the 2020 election having been “rigged” against him. He had made support of those claims an all but necessary condition for anyone seeking his support, persisted even as most Republicans concluded long ago that the former president’s obsessive relitigation of his defeat to Joe Biden was only harming their party.
After all, it is only a natural consequence of his own insistence on those claims that some of his more vocal supporters want him to keep pressing the issue. “America wants him to run for president because he is still our real president,” MyPillow founder Mike Lindell, a prominent election denier and Trump backer told Yahoo News on Tuesday night. “He won the 2020 election.”
Others involved in the campaign stressed that Trump's speech — and, presumably, the ensuing campaign — would look to the future, not the past. Instead of dwelling on the 2020 election, he would describe what has happened since, how Biden has — as a senior campaign adviser put it — turned the United States into a"sad, horrible, feckless place," a charge similar to the one Trump made inAt least for one evening, that prediction held.
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