Donald Trump pledges to “crush” Joe Biden in 2024 election

While Joe Biden has just formalized his candidacy for a second term in the White House, Donald Trump gave his first campaign meeting and was not kind to his future opponent.

“We are going to win back the White House”: in front of his voters in New Hampshire, Donald Trump pledged Thursday to “crush” President Joe Biden – whose candidacy has just been formalized – in the 2024 election.

“On Tuesday, Joe Biden officially declared that he wanted four more disastrous years” in power, criticized the former Republican president.

Donald Trump did not have words harsh enough to denounce the record of his successor: a country steeped in violence and crime, crushed by inflation, where banks “collapse”…

In 2024, America will have the choice between “success and failure”, “security or anarchy”, “prosperity or disaster”, he estimated, the tone serious.

Premier meeting

The former tenant of the White House held his first campaign rally since his historic indictment by a New York court.

“We are going to crush Joe Biden,” assured the former businessman in front of his supporters, wearing his famous red caps.

Donald Trump then launched into an impersonation of Joe Biden suggesting that the octogenarian leader was senile – a recurring assertion among Republicans.

Ron DeSantis in the viewfinder

Donald Trump, 76, has also long criticized Florida Governor Ron DeSantis – his biggest rival for the Republican presidential nomination, but who has yet to declare his candidacy.

“He is falling apart” in the polls, he mocked.

Despite his historic indictment, Donald Trump is currently surfing well above the fray of Republican candidates.

And could therefore be chosen by his party to face Joe Biden again in November 2024.

New Hampshire, where he is in a meeting, is among the first states to organize their Republican primaries in early 2024. A victory in this state would guarantee Donald Trump the winner a precious – and necessary – momentum for the future.

Surrounded by investigations into financial affairs, his electoral pressures in Georgia in 2020 or even the management of his White House archives, Donald Trump throws himself headlong into his new electoral campaign, denouncing “a witch hunt”.