Former President Donald Trump will claim to be the leader of the Republican Party and its “suspected 2024 nominee” when he makes his first public appearance since leaving office at next weekend’s Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, a report said. .
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A longtime Trump advisor told Axios his CPAC speech will be a “show of strength,” saying the message will be, “I may not have Twitter or the Oval Office, but I’m still in charge.” The source added that “payback is his biggest obsession.”
In this Sept. 29, 2020 file photo, President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump hold hands on stage after the first presidential debate at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio. (AP Photo / Julio Cortez, File)
Trump’s advisers will reportedly meet with him in Mar-a-Lago this week to plan his next political moves and set the framework for king formation in the 2022 midterm elections.
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According to Axios, Trump is expected to go after the 10 House Republicans who voted to condemn him in his impeachment trial, spurred by the U.S Capitol uprising on Jan. 6, and the seven GOP senators who voted with Democrats to convict.
Trump was acquitted, with 57 senators voting in favor of his conviction – less than the required two-thirds majority – and 43 voting against conviction.
He also reportedly plans to argue in the CPAC speech that many of his predictions about President Biden have already come true.
“Trump is basically the Republican Party,” senior adviser Jason Miller told Fox News. The only rift is between Beltway insiders and grassroots Republicans across the country. If you attack President Trump, you attack republican grassroots. ‘
Trump has found support from Republican state officials who condemned some of the members of Congress who voted against him. Meanwhile, his leadership PAC, Save America, has $ 75 million on hand to help set up primary challenges for incumbent Republicans who went against him, as well as a database of tens of millions of names.
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A Suffolk University / USA Today poll found that 46% of Trump supporters would leave the Republican party and join a Trump party if he decided to create one, versus 27% who would stay with the GOP .
Half of those polled said the Republican Party should become “more loyal to Trump,” even if it means losing the support of established Republicans, while 19% said the party should become less loyal to Trump and more in aligned with established Republicans.
The poll of 1,000 Trump voters, identified from polls in 2020, was conducted via landline and cell phone last Monday through Friday. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
Fox News’ Brooke Singman contributed to this report