Trumps tystnad möts av spekulationer – svaret: ”Allt jobb syns inte utåt”

On November 15, 2022, the 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump, announced his campaign for a second non-consecutive presidential term in a speech at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. Trump reportedly had been considering a 2024 presidential run after his loss in the 2020 U.S. presidential election to Democratic Party challenger Joe Biden. Trump denied the results of the election, promoting false and discredited claims of voter fraud, and attempted to overturn the results. In the week of November 9, 2020, Trump indicated to Republican Party senator Kevin Cramer: "If this doesn't work out, I'll just run again in four years." In a speech at the February 2021 meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference, Trump "teased a White House run in four years", and won 55% of the vote in the CPAC straw poll, more than double the support of the next contender, Florida governor Ron DeSantis. The following month, Bloomberg News reported that Trump was "strongly considering another run for president in 2024" but likely would not formally announce his candidacy until the summer of 2023. Trump repeatedly made statements interpreted by pundits as hints that he would run again in 2024. On December 3, 2022, Trump called for the "termination" of the US constitution, and asked whether he should be immediately returned to power.Biden chief of staff Ron Klain indicated that the Biden administration was "anticipating a bruising general election matchup" if Trump ran. In a March 2022 press conference, when asked about the possibility that Trump could be his opponent in 2024, Biden replied, "I'd be very fortunate if I had that same man running against me", prompting speculation about Biden's motives in making such a statement. In December 2021, CNN reported that "Trump's wait-and-see approach to the 2024 election has frozen the next Republican presidential primary", with potential challengers keeping their heads down while awaiting Trump's official decision on the matter.After months of speculation, Trump announced his candidacy for president in a November 15, 2022, speech to supporters at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. His announcement received wide media coverage and a mixed response from both Democrats and Republicans. Some Democrats warily welcomed the campaign, viewing Trump as beatable, while others opposed it, citing negative effects it could have on U.S. democracy. Some Republicans, consisting mostly of Trump loyalists, welcomed the campaign, while others opposed it, viewing Trump as a weak and beatable candidate who had lost the Republicans the past several election cycles. If Trump's run succeeds, he would break Biden's record as the oldest candidate ever to be elected to the presidency; if he runs against Biden again, it will be the first presidential rematch since 1956 after Dwight D. Eisenhower successfully ran for reelection against Adlai Stevenson II, and if Trump wins, he will be the first person to lose a presidential election and then win a rematch of that election since Grover Cleveland in 1892, as well as the first and only president since Cleveland to serve two nonconsecutive terms.