{"id":54529,"date":"2022-11-15T18:45:53","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T02:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=54529"},"modified":"2022-11-15T19:23:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T03:23:48","slug":"donald-trump-announces-2024-white-house-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=54529","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump announces 2024 White House run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PALM BEACH, Fla.<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Former President Trump, facing questions about his influence over the Republican Party, on Tuesday announced his entry into the 2024 race for the White House.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am announcing my candidacy for president of the United States,&#8221; Trump, 76, said flanked by massive American flags, at his Mar-a-Lago club and home in Palm Beach, Fla.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement \u2014 and\u00a0official filing\u00a0\u2014 comes just a week after the 2022 midterm elections, which saw a lackluster performance from Trump-backed Republican candidates in key Senate races and competitive House elections. As a result, Democrats were able to retain control of the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;America&#8217;s comeback starts right now,&#8221; Trump said, claiming, &#8220;Your country is being destroyed before your eyes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The dark vision hearkened back to Trump&#8217;s inauguration speech of a country suffering &#8220;American carnage&#8221; and in need of him to fix it.<\/p>\n<p>Trump running sets up a potential rematch against President Joe Biden, who will turn 80 on Sunday and says he intends to run for reelection in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALM BEACH, Fla. \u2013\u00a0Former President Trump,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54529"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54532,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54529\/revisions\/54532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}