Trump announces 2024 presidential bid

Former US President, Donald Trump, has announced he will run for the 2024 Republican nomination for president.

Trump is seeking to return to the White House after he had lost his bid for re-election to Joe Biden in 2020.

He disclosed this on Tuesday during a speech at his Mar-a-Lago, Florida home.

“In order to make America great and glorious again. I am tonight announcing my candidacy for president of the United States,” Trump said.

Recall that Trump won the US presidency for the first time in 2016 when he contested against Hillary Clinton.

Trump would become the second President to retake the White House if he succeeds in 2024, thereby making him the 45th and the 47th president, respectively.

With seven months to go until the presidential election, a Wall Street Journal survey released Tuesday indicated Trump with the edge over the president in six of the seven states polled: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina.

The survey showed Trump holds a six-point lead over Biden in North Carolina in a ballot that also includes third-party and independent candidates.

Trump also has a five-point lead in Arizona, a four-point edge in Nevada, and three-point advantages in Michigan and Pennsylvania.

Meanwhile, the former president edges the Biden by a single point in Georgia, with the two tied in Wisconsin.

Trump held similar leads when those questioned were given a head-to-head matchup between the former president and Biden.

Recall that Biden narrowly edged Trump in all the battlegrounds tested, other than North Carolina, to win the White House in 2020.

However, the new survey revealed that Biden also had a negative job performance rating in all seven battleground states.

On the flip side, voters in every state except Nevada had a favorable opinion of Trump’s time in the White House.

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