Ohio rally kicks off Trump鈥檚 campaign
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Donald Trump held his first big campaign-style rally since leaving the White House, giving a vintage, rambling speech on Saturday to an adoring audience as he launched a series of appearances ahead of next year鈥檚 midterm elections.
The former president, who has been booted from social media platforms and faces multiple legal woes, has flirted with his own potential candidacy in 2024, but in the 90-minute address at a fairground in Ohio he made no clear mention of his political future, even when the crowd chanted 鈥渇our more years! four more years!鈥
Trump did tease them at one point by alluding to the possibility of another stab at the White House. 鈥淲e may have to win it a third time. It is possible,鈥 he said, showing yet again he thinks he won in November.
On other matters Trump flitted from one to the next 鈥 immigration, crime, gun rights, Iran and more 鈥 bouncing like a pinball in true Trumpian style.
One repeated message was that President Joe Biden is a catastrophe. 鈥淛oe Biden is destroying our nation before our very eyes,鈥 Trump said.
And Trump hammered away yet again at the falsehood that he won the November election but Biden prevailed through fraud. 鈥淭he election was over,鈥 he said, 鈥淎nd we took a massive victory. They did into something that should never be allowed.鈥
Vindictive monologue
Until now Trump had delivered two major speeches since leaving Washington in January, including a vindictive monologue in North Carolina early this month when relitigated his loss to Biden.
The Ohio rally drew a crowd of several thousand, who were enthusiastic but not quite raucous. One purpose of it was for Trump to endorse conservative candidate Max Miller, a former Trump aide.
With this event the brash billionaire made clear he wants to remain a powerful force in the Republican Party鈥檚 effort to retake the Senate and House of Representatives next year. He has signaled a willingness to help candidates who embrace his Make America Great Again movement.
In the crowd many sported shirts with slogans like 鈥淭rump 2024 鈥 Because America can never be too great.鈥
鈥淚f you look at all of Trump鈥檚 rallies, you鈥檒l see hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of people and there is no way a demented old man won this election,鈥 said Laura Benas, 57, a retail manager in Wellington, referring to Biden.
Trump, 75, has maintained a relatively low profile since leaving the presidency under a cloud three weeks after the deadly January 6 uprising at the US Capitol.
The House impeached Trump for inciting the insurrection 鈥 with 10 Republicans joining Democrats in voting to oust the president 鈥 but he was acquitted by the Senate. It was his second impeachment.
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