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Donald Trump declared victory on stage at his home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, on Super Tuesday, where he was the projected winner of the Republican primary that won 11 states.
In a rambling 20-minute speech filled with false claims and familiar complaints, the front-runner for the Republican nomination to face Democratic President Joe Biden in November’s general election called the U.S. election ” “Third World,” he also celebrated his primary victory.
“In some ways we are a third world country,” he said. “We are a third world country in our borders, and we are a third world country in our elections. And we have to stop that.”
The former president has maintained a false narrative that the 2020 presidential election was “stolen” and “rigged” against him, and his exaggerated claims for more than a decade have been a false legal challenge. It has sparked legal challenges and Republican-led attempts to challenge the results and maneuvers. It’s a bill to do what Trump was unable to do in court.
Trump has won nearly every 2024 Republican primary so far, with his main and only rival remaining in the race, Nikki Haley, winning primaries in Vermont and Washington, D.C. I won.
“November 5th will be remembered as the most important day in the history of our country,” Trump told supporters Tuesday night before his campaign in Vermont was called.
“We’re going to win this election because we have no other choice. If we lose this election, we won’t have a country anymore.”
Trump did not mention Haley in his remarks, but predicted that “unity” within the Republican Party was imminent, saying, “It’s going to happen very quickly.”
His relatively short victory speech struck a familiar target, advancing anti-immigrant rhetoric that falsely claims that immigrants from the U.S.-Mexico border are infiltrating U.S. cities in “immigration crimes.” He warned that the country was “dying”.
Donald Trump greets supporters at his Mar-a-Lago home on March 5.
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“We’re going to have to deport a lot of people. There’s a lot of bad people,” he said. “Because our country can’t survive like this. Our cities are suffocating. Our state is dying. And frankly, our country is dying. .”
Trump has also repeatedly demonized journalists and publishers as “enemies of the people” and threatened criminal prosecution, while lamenting the end of a “fair and free press.”
“The press was not fair and it was not free,” he said. “The media…used them to police our country. Now no one trusts them.”
The twice-impeached former president, who faces 91 criminal charges in four jurisdictions and a potentially financially devastating fraud conviction in New York, announced Tuesday By the time he took the stage, he had won primary elections in nearly a dozen states.
His victories included Texas, where it took 161 delegates to secure the Republican nomination.
“There’s a reason they call this day ‘Super Tuesday,'” Trump said. “This is a big deal. Experts and others tell me there’s never been anything like this. There’s never been anything this definitive.”