President Trump

Former President Donald Trump said Saturday he's "more committed" to winning back the White House than ever before as he hit the campaign trail for the ...

Attorney General Merrick Garland [appointed a separate special counsel](https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/12/politics/joe-biden-classified-documents-counsels-office/index.html) to take over the investigation into the Obama-era classified documents found at Biden’s home and former private office. [won the South Carolina primary](https://www.cnn.com/2016/02/20/politics/republicans-south-carolina-primary-highlights/index.html) by 10 points in 2016, a feat he hopes to achieve again this cycle. Haley, who recently relocated her top aides to Charleston, is said to be weighing the timing of a campaign launch at this point, not wanting to be the first one to take on Trump by herself. Both investigations implicate the conduct of Trump. [both Biden](https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/21/politics/white-house-documents/index.html) and former Vice President [Mike Pence](https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/27/politics/mike-pence-classified-documents/index.html). Ron DeSantis, is already working to cultivate his own allies in the state, according to one person familiar with the outreach. He insisted his 2024 campaign isn’t playing “prevent defense,” referring to a strategy used in American football by a team with the lead late in a game. With his podium stationed beneath the Statehouse rotunda and flanked by American flags, the event had all the trappings of a presidential event. Tim Scott – two native South Carolinians who are exploring their own White House runs – decide to take on the former president. [continues to be investigated by the Department of Justice](https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/06/politics/january-6-justice-department-jack-smith-trump-investigation/index.html), and special counsel Jack Smith is overseeing the criminal probes into the retention of classified documents at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort and into parts of the [January 6, 2021, insurrection](https://www.cnn.com/specials/politics/january-6-insurrection) at the US Capitol. [Nikki Haley](https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/20/politics/mike-pompeo-nikki-haley-trump-vp/index.html). [in the Granite State in 2016](https://www.cnn.com/2016/02/09/politics/donald-trump-new-hampshire-victory/index.html).

The former president spoke to Republican Party activists in New Hampshire and South Carolina amid signs that some are eager for Ron DeSantis to run.

Both Trump and his team seemed eager on Saturday to get back to the hustle and bustle of his time in the White House, and there were signals he has kept his same habits. And that ethos, according to an adviser, extends to how Trump will approach fundraising with a focus on small-dollar donations over big donor events. Maybe he’s lost his step,’” Trump said at a meeting of the New Hampshire Republican Party. Trump said DeSantis, who has been openly skeptical about government efforts to vaccinate people against the virus, “promoted the vaccine as much as anyone.” He praised governors who did not close down their states, noting that DeSantis ordered the closure of beaches and business in some parts of the state. Trump was joined Saturday by some familiar faces from his White House days, including social media guru Dan Scavino, political director Brian Jack, and Jason Miller, as well as his campaign’s new top lieutenants, Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita. “I don’t think we have competition this time either, to be honest,” he said. and come across more balanced and more reasonable.” But Trump himself brushed off concerns that he is in danger of not securing the nomination. “I’m the one that chose him.” Ron DeSantis, who is widely expected to jump into the race. But Haley may be only a modest challenge for Trump going forward. “She called me and said she’d like to consider it.

Trump and his allies hope the events in states with enormous power in selecting the nominee will offer a show of force behind the former president after a ...

Former President Trump is facing intensifying political headwinds in South Carolina, a key early primary state that will play host over the weekend to one ...

Haley and Scott — both South Carolina natives — also remain “very, very popular” in the state, Woodhouse said. Likewise, former Vice President Mike Pence has made several trips to the state in an effort to bolster his support among evangelical voters. Trump’s Saturday visit to South Carolina marks his first real campaign swing since launching his third presidential bid in November. “Some of the folks you would expect to show aren’t going to show, I don’t think. A poll released this week by the conservative South Carolina Policy Council provided some early evidence for Trump’s struggles. Trump’s appearance at the state Capitol on Saturday is expected to be a smaller affair than his typical rallies, which tend to draw thousands of supporters. Or is Trump himself always the issue? The same poll also showed Trump holding a 26-point lead over DeSantis in a hypothetical Republican primary. “The issue with Trump is can you debate real issues? “And I think that support is fairly soft.” “I think for now you have a lot of people hedging their bets,” the person said. “The reason that Donald Trump is coming to South Carolina is because it’s an important state, but he’s trying to really lock up some of that support,” said Alex Stroman, a former executive director of the South Carolina GOP.

COLUMBIA, South Carolina, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump slammed "radical Democrats" and brushed aside concerns about momentum on ...

House of Representatives in early January to persuade them to vote for Kevin McCarthy, an ally, for the new Speaker. To be sure, Trump retains a significant base of support, particularly among the grassroots. [not attending](/world/us/trump-seeks-shift-his-idling-white-house-campaign-back-into-gear-2023-01-26/) are the state party chairman, at least three Republican U.S. representatives from the state and South Carolina U.S. Trump said in New Hampshire that Stephen Stepanek, the state's Republican Party chairman, would join his campaign as a senior adviser. How a candidate performs there often makes or breaks their campaign.

Former President Trump criticized the Democratic Party's efforts to change up their primary calendar and boot New Hampshire from its first-in-the-nation ...

Jeanne Shaheen (D) and Maggie Hassan (D) [sat out the White House congressional ball](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3762579-nh-senators-skipping-white-house-event-over-biden-backed-primary-plan/) in December amid anger over the potential changes. [will “wreak havoc”](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3817271-new-hampshire-democrats-to-biden-changing-primary-calendar-will-wreak-havoc-on-us/) in the state. The former president will also make a trip to South Carolina on Saturday afternoon. “Joe Biden lost it badly, and it was a very tough time,” Trump said. The Iowa caucus has typically kicked off Democrats’ nominating calendar, closely followed by New Hampshire with the first primary. “I’ve been your defender, and I’ve refused to let any Republican …

At two events on Saturday, Donald J. Trump is embracing more traditional campaigning as he struggles to maintain support for his third White House bid.

Mr. Still, as Mr. Alex Olson, a Republican strategist, was in Salem, N.H., on behalf of Ron to the Rescue, a new super PAC that is pushing for a 2024 bid by Mr. The biggest risk to Mr. and former Representative Mick Mulvaney, who was acting White House staff chief under Mr. Renacci provided one of Mr. And in South Carolina on Saturday, Mr. “The campaign is firing on all cylinders and continues to build up an operation that will be unmatched,” Steven Cheung, Mr. In New Hampshire, Mr. Trump’s attempt to drape himself with the trappings of a traditional campaign is an unspoken acknowledgment that he begins the race in one of the most politically vulnerable positions of his public life. In South Carolina, where he has previously attracted thousands to rallies, Mr. Trump framed his candidacy as a shield for the country from communism and Marxism and vowed to keep transgender athletes out of women’s sports.

Speech to Republicans in New Hampshire as ex-president becomes first to hit the 2024 campaign trail.

He predicts that DeSantis will be the Republican nominee in 2024. “DeSantis is so far ahead of where Barack Obama was against Hillary Clinton [in the Democratic primary in 2007] because that’s the closest parallel.” Frank Luntz, a pollster who has advised numerous Republican campaigns, takes the opposite view from Wilson: he believes that Trump is all washed up. Rick Wilson, a cofounder of the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump group, believes that Saturday’s events will put pressure on rival candidates to show their hand. Despite the advice of many Republicans to move on from his “big lie” that the 2020 election was stolen from him, he could not resist an early swipe. We’re going to end up with a with a less exciting primary than people think.” He entered the New Hampshire event to the sound of singer Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” and began with his customary dubious claim that there were thousands of people outside the packed venue. He also claimed he would seek to criminalise the action of future presidents who took a less hardline approach to immigration. In New Hampshire, Republican Governor Chris Sununu has said he is having conversations about a primary bid, and many high-ranking Republicans there – including those who supported Trump previously – say publicly they are looking for an alternative. But the former president casually denied that he faces serious competition in the primary. Both events contrasted sharply with the rollicking rallies in which Trump tends to thrive, suggesting an effort to show Republicans that he can be a more disciplined and conventional politician when he chooses. He championed “gas stoves” and “gas cars” over their electric counterparts.

Former President Donald Trump will be the keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the New Hampshire Republican Party on Saturday.

Addressing the New Hampshire GOP, former president Donald Trump revisited one of his favorite rants attacking wind turbines and wind power.

It’s particularly rich that Trump chose to focus on protecting animals as an argument for one of his pet issues considering his usual animosity toward the environment, as evidenced by [his administration’s rollback of environmental protections](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-energy-firms-access-public-lands-drilling-1106326/) and [damage to the climate](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-climate-crisis-damage-can-it-be-fixed-1064995/). left Afghanistan, the Taliban “never [fought] at night because they don’t have binoculars.” (He probably meant night vision goggles, though they did have After lengthy litigation, the Trump Organization was And the wind turbines are all made in China,” he said. This was not the only wild claim Trump made in his New Hampshire speech. “Some are made in Germany, but most are made in China.” [ has faced consequences for it](https://www.npr.org/2022/04/06/1091250692/esi-energy-bald-eagles#:~:text=The%20birds%20are%20killed%20when,harm%20eagles%20under%20federal%20law.). Trump carries a longstanding personal grudge against windmills. We demand they go in our prairies and our mountains and our plains only to realize that they’re killing all our birds at a level that if you go out hunting and you happen to shoot a bald eagle, they put you in jail like for five years, right? Let’s destroy our planes and beautiful oceans and seas and everything else,'” Trump said. (The Don Quixote jokes write themselves.) During a speech to the New Hampshire Republican State Committee’s annual meeting, Trump mocked Biden’s energy policies.

Trump said electric vehicles were "ridiculous" in front of South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, who has been supportive of EV businesses in his state.

In 2021, South Carolina won a $155 million contract for Oshkosh Defense [to build](https://www.wistv.com/2021/06/22/oshkosh-defense-will-build-new-mail-trucks-south-carolina/) United States Postal Service neighborhood delivery vehicles, which it says will create more than 1,000 jobs. This was Trump’s second campaign event of the day, following an afternoon [speech in New Hampshire](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-2024-campaign-trail-new-hampshire-windmills-1234670274/). The Republican governor invited the former president to the state capitol for an event introducing the [Trump campaign’s](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-announces-2024-presidential-run-mar-a-lago-1234626272/) South Carolina leadership team on Saturday. [signed an executive order](https://governor.sc.gov/news/2022-10/gov-henry-mcmaster-signs-executive-order-coordinate-states-electric-vehicle) to prioritize recruitment of businesses related to electric vehicles and establish a jobs training program. But as Associated Press national politics reporter, Meg Kinnard, noted in a tweet, McMaster mere months ago signed an executive order to entice electrical vehicle-related businesses to the state. The car goes for like two hours,” Trump said of the Democrats while McMaster, who has endorsed his 2024 campaign, stood behind him.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the New Hampshire Republican State Committee's Annual Meeting on January 28, 2023 in Salem, New Hampshire. Scott ...

That, no matter how much sandpaper Trump brings to his new workshop, will never be the case. Which, if you listen carefully to the activists in the audience at Republican events in recent years—and especially after Jan. He talked about his negotiating sessions with the Taliban and the five telephone operators who stood by to help him place calls. Trump has a rich reservoir of material to mine, to be sure. Trump on Saturday dropped into New Hampshire to speak to the state party’s annual meeting, where he picked up the backing of the party chair who ended his term on Saturday. Trump may want to campaign as a traditional candidate with the universal support befitting a former President, but that isn’t his core competency, and he seems to lack the requisite skills to keep his ship afloat as some two dozen would-be pirates are on the docks and considering their own next steps. “But he’s so divisive,” the 67-year-old retiree from Newport continues. He then jetted to South Carolina, where he unfurled a pack of high-wattage supporters at the state capitol. Trump smartly picked up on the public’s latent—and then not-so-latent—discontent with the border criss, the economic disparities incumbent with globalization, the rampant drug addiction crisis in this country. For potential Trump challengers, Saturday’s showing should not have spooked anyone from the race. The hour-long diatribe suggested Joe Biden would have been shrewd to throw his son, Hunter, under the bus, that the Taliban were incapable of fighting at night because they lacked “binoculars,” and that wind turbines routinely knock planes out of the sky. Maybe he’s lost a step,’” Trump said, mocking his critics.

Early polls suggest the 76-year-old former president is already leading the pack for the Republican Party nomination.

"I hope you're going to remember that during the general election," Trump told party members. In South Carolina, he further dismissed the speculation by saying that "we have huge rallies planned, bigger than ever before." Maybe he's lost that step,'" Trump said at the New Hampshire GOP's annual meeting in Salem, his first event.

Scott Eisen Getty Images via AFP Dans le New Hampshire, Donald Trump a fait la promotion de son programme de campagne, y compris en matière d'immigration et de ...

L’équipe de Donald Trump a eu du mal à obtenir le soutien des législateurs de la Caroline du Sud, même de la part de certains qui l’ont soutenu avec empressement auparavant. Trump a ajouté de nouveaux défis financiers lorsqu’il a décidé de commencer sa campagne en novembre – bien plus tôt que beaucoup ne l’avaient demandé. Certains ont dit qu’il était trop tôt pour faire des approbations à plus d’un an des primaires ou qu’ils attendaient de voir qui d’autre entrerait dans la course. Il a cité la décision des démocrates de modifier le calendrier électoral, coûtant au New Hampshire sa première place dans les primaires. Au cours des dernières semaines, ses partisans ont contacté des représentants politiques et des élus pour obtenir le soutien de Donald Trump à un moment critique où d’autres républicains préparent leur propre candidature. Trump aux dirigeants du parti lors de la réunion annuelle du Parti républicain du New Hampshire à Salem avant un arrêt en fin d’après-midi à Columbia pour présenter son équipe de direction en Caroline du Sud.

Donald Trump a averti samedi que les prochaines élections étaient la seule chance des États-Unis « de sauver le pays » lors d'un rassemblement en Caroline ...

Le tribun, dont la chute a été mille fois annoncée, a jusqu’ici survécu à tous les scandales. En décembre, une commission parlementaire enquêtant sur la responsabilité du républicain dans l’attaque menée par ses partisans contre le Congrès américain a recommandé qu’il soit poursuivi pénalement. Trump à Columbia, en Caroline du Sud, devant ses plus fidèles alliés politiques. Ces deux États seront parmi les premiers à organiser leurs primaires républicaines début 2024. Le président Joe Biden dit jusqu’ici avoir « l’intention de se représenter », et a promis de rendre sa décision publique au début de l’année. « L’élection de 2024 est notre seule chance de sauver notre pays et nous avons besoin d’un leader qui est prêt à le faire dès le premier jour », a déclaré M.

L'ancien président Donald Trump a donné le coup d'envoi de sa candidature à la Maison-Blanche pour 2024 avec un arrêt samedi dans le New Hampshire avant de ...

Le tribun, dont la chute a été mille fois annoncée, a jusqu’ici survécu à tous les scandales. En décembre, une commission parlementaire enquêtant sur la responsabilité du républicain dans l’attaque menée par ses partisans contre le Congrès américain a recommandé qu’il soit poursuivi pénalement. Trump à Columbia, en Caroline du Sud, devant ses plus fidèles alliés politiques. Ces deux États seront parmi les premiers à organiser leurs primaires républicaines début 2024. Le président Joe Biden dit jusqu’ici avoir «l’intention de se représenter», et a promis de rendre sa décision publique au début de l’année. «L’élection de 2024 est notre seule chance de sauver notre pays et nous avons besoin d’un leader qui est prêt à le faire dès le premier jour», a déclaré M.