Former President Trump used his keynote speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Saturday to foretell his line of attack for his anticipated rematch with President Biden in the general election, addressing inflation, immigration, foreign policy, and foreign policy. He plans to deal a blow to President Biden with his policies.
“If we win, our first and most urgent action will be to close the border, stop the invasion, and bring Joe Biden’s illegal aliens home,” according to an excerpt shared exclusively by The Hill. “Send it back to ,” he would say.
“But to achieve that future, we must first shake off the yoke of an out-of-control political class. And that starts with telling crooked Joe Biden, ‘You’re fired.’ ” President Trump would say.
Trump administration officials said the former president’s remarks, scheduled for 1 p.m. in Maryland, will focus on what his second term will look like compared to Biden’s chances. It is said that it will be talked about.
President Trump is expected to harp on inflation, an issue that has dogged Biden for the past two years and is contributing to low approval ratings even as there are signs of a strong economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. It is being
Officials also said President Trump’s reelection of Biden could exacerbate the surge of migrants at the southern border and spark further turmoil on the world stage as the White House grapples with the Ukraine war and instability in the Middle East. He said he would warn that there is.
Biden is reportedly considering taking executive action at the border in lieu of congressional action ahead of his State of the Union address early next month, but Trump administration officials say the former president He said he would dismiss these efforts as lip service and that voters who disfavor Mr. Biden would not be satisfied. Treatment of borders.
The former president is expected to cite his first-term policies on the economy and immigration and argue he can get the country back on track if elected in November, officials said.
Trump has spoken at CPAC for several years in a row, including one of his most recent speeches, one of his longest and loudest. Trump told the CPAC crowd last year, “I’m paying you back,” and officials said this year that Trump told his supporters that the country’s success was “my ultimate and absolute “It will be revenge,” he said.
Mr. Trump leads Mr. Biden by about 2 percentage points in national polls, according to The Hill/Decision Desk Headquarters polling average. Recent polls show Mr. Biden leading Mr. Trump in Pennsylvania, and former President Biden has a narrow lead in states such as Michigan and Georgia.
The former president’s remarks came on the same day as the South Carolina primary, where polls project him to win a landslide victory over Nikki Haley in his home state, where he was governor from 2011 to 2017. .
Trump easily won the first three primaries in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada, and is leading in polls in Super Tuesday states and other states. Despite this, Haley has said she has no intention of withdrawing from the race and has stepped up her criticism of Trump.
She pointed to general election polls showing Biden with a wide lead over Trump in a hypothetical matchup and argued that nominating Trump was too risky.
But Trump administration officials say they see Saturday as the final day to spend significant time and energy attacking Haley, who lost South Carolina by a double-digit margin and has no realistic chance of winning any state in the future. I don’t think there is a clear path forward.
“She’s not really attacking me, she’s really attacking the Republican Party,” Trump said at a rally in South Carolina on Friday. “So a vote for Nikki Haley tomorrow means a vote for Joe Biden in November.”
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