Trump Freezes Republican 2024 Field With Hints of a 2016 Rerun
- Former president vows to oppose disloyal Republican candidates
- Trump hews to false claims that he won the 2020 election
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Donald Trump didn’t formally announce his candidacy for president at the year’s marquee conservative gathering, but inched close enough to effectively freeze the 2024 Republican field and put would-be rivals on notice that he remains both king and kingmaker.
The former president’s central argument at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, on Sunday was that he’s the best candidate to win in 2024 because, he claims, he never lost in 2020.