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President Donald Trump has the winning formula for the Republican Party and the upcoming midterm elections.
During his speech he gave Saturday evening at the CPAC Dallas event, Trump called for directly assailing President Biden’s agenda as well as the Democrats that control Congress.
Trump said that Republican candidates needed to make a “clear pledge” to take control of Congress and start a “national referendum” on the Democrats and their failed fight against rising crime.
“We have to win an Earth-shattering victory in 2022,” Trump said.
“Winning this election needs to be a national referendum on the horrendous catastrophes radical Democrats have inflicted on our country.”
He mentioned that GOP candidates must campaign on a “clear pledge” that they will “shut down the border, stop the crime, the inflation, and hold the Biden administration accountable,” Trump said.
“Job number one” must be for a GOP-controlled Congress to “restore public safety.”
“People are walking outside and getting shot in the head,” said Trump.
“Because of the radical left’s merciless crusade to dismantle law enforcement in America, our country is now a cesspool of crime that it has never been before.”
He brought up the shootings that happen every day in Chicago.
“Everybody is talking about it, other countries are talking about it. You had seven people killed in Chicago this weekend. You had 68 people shot. That is not democracy, that is not what we stand for,” he added.
Trump teased a run in 2024, but he said that the priority is getting Republicans back in control of Congress.
“I ran twice… and I did much better the second time, getting millions more votes than I did in 2016 and likely getting more votes than any sitting president in the history of our country by far, and now we may have to do it again,” Trump said.
Trump also talked about cashless bail and that “savage criminals are being released” to “continue their violent rampages against the United States of America,” as “the streets of our Democrat-run cities are drenched with the blood of innocent victims.”
To make America great again, he said first “we have to make America safe again first. It is time for leaders who have the courage to say what needs to be said and do what needs to be done.”
Trump called on the hopefully GOP-led Congress to fund the “largest increase in hiring of police officers in American history.” He added that they must be empowered to do their job without fear of retaliation in left-wing cities.
“They know what to do and we have to allow them to do it,” said Trump.
“We need to return to the tried-and-true strategy of a thing called stop-and-frisk. We have to take the guns away from criminals. Instead of taking guns away from law-abiding Americans, let’s take them away from the violent felons and career criminals for a change.”
Trump also talked about his call for the “death penalty for drug dealers.”
“Last year, we lost 250,000 people to drugs,” he said. “There is no war. These are numbers that are bigger than war numbers: 250,000. They say it is 100,000. I say it is much more. It is probably more than 250,000, but you have also destroyed millions and millions because of drugs.”
Trump did not announce a run for president in 2024 at CPAC. The CPAC straw poll showed Trump in a significant lead as the candidate of choice.
