Former President Donald Trump will return to Washington on Tuesday for the first time since leaving office, delivering a policy address to an allied think tank that has been crafting an agenda for a possible second term.
Trump will address the Agenda Summit America First two days of America First Policy Institute (AFPI) as some advisers are urging him to spend more time talking about his vision for the future and less time re-litigating the 2020 election as he prepares to announce an expected campaign for the White House in 2024.
“I think it’s going to be a very policy-focused, progressive speech, a lot like State of the Union 5.0,” said Brooke Rollins, president of AFPI. Made up of former Trump administration officials and allies, the nonprofit is widely viewed as an “administration in waiting” that could quickly move to the West Wing if Trump were to run again and win.
Trump’s appearance in Washington, his first trip back since January 20, 2021, when President Joe Biden took office, comes as his potential 2024 rivals have been taking increasingly overt steps to challenge his status as president. standard-bearer of the Republican Party. They include former Vice President Mike Pence, who has been touting his own “Freedom Agenda” in speeches that serve as an implicit contrast to Trump.
“Some people may choose to focus on the past, but I think conservatives need to focus on the future. If we do, we will not only win the next election, we will change the course of American history for generations,” Pence had planned to say in a speech at the Heritage Foundation in Washington on the eve of Trump’s visit. Pence’s appearance was postponed due to bad weather, but he will deliver his own speech Tuesday morning before the Young America Foundation, not far from the AFPI meeting.
Trump has spent much of his time since leaving office obsessing over the 2020 election and spreading inaccurate reports about his loss to cast doubt on a Biden victory. In fact, even as the January 6 committee was exposing his desperate and potentially illegal attempts to stay in power and his refusal to stop a violent mob of his supporters trying to stop the peaceful transition of power, Trump kept trying. to pressure officials to nullify Biden’s victory, even though there are no legal means to decertify past elections.
[Con información de The Associated Press]
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