Former President Donald Trump spoke about election day being “Judgment Day” for a select group of people while speaking over the weekend at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
“For hard-working Americans, Nov. 5 will be our new Liberation Day,” Trump said. “But for the liars, and cheaters, and fraudsters, and censors and imposters who have commandeered our government, it will be their Judgment Day.”
“When we win, the curtain closes on their corrupt reign and the sun rises on a bright new future for America,” he added. “I believe it’s our last chance.”
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Trump declared himself a “proud political dissident” during his speech, which was delivered ahead of his massive win in the South Carolina Republican primary — the race against Nikki Haley, who served as governor of the state, was called within minutes of the polls closing.
“I stand before you today not only as your past and hopefully future president but as a proud political dissident. I am a dissident,” he told the CPAC crowd.
ABC News went so far as to compare Trump’s remarks last year at CPAC to this year’s speech:
Last year, Trump used his speech at CPAC to tell his supporters that his 2024 campaign would be one of “retribution.”
“In 2016, I declared: I am your voice. Today I add: I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution,” he said then.
This time, he cast himself as a savior standing between his supporters and near-anarchy as he spoke of “hoards of illegal aliens stampeding across our borders,” warned the country’s social safety net and education system would “buckle and collapse,” and claimed that, “the gangs will be invading your territory.”
“These are the stakes of this election: Our country is being destroyed and the only thing standing between you and its obliteration is me,” he declared, casting Biden’s leadership as “an express train barreling toward servitude and to ruin.”
Trump had this to say about the stakes in November: “If crooked Joe Biden and his thugs win in 2024, the worst is yet to come. Our country will go and sink to levels that were unimaginable.”
After South Carolina, Trump is all but guaranteed to be the Republican presidential nominee and he will take on Biden for a second time. Polling shows the 81-year-olf geriatric president is vulnerable in several areas, including his age and cognitive ability, and the impact of inflation on the budgets of American families despite the inflation rate dropping off from last year’s record highs.
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Tom Tillison grew up in Maryland before moving to Central Florida as a young teen. It is in the Sunshine State that he honed both his passion for politics and his writing skills. Tillison also contributes to BizPac Review.
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