WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump is expected to announce his re-running for the White House on Tuesday, and Republicans in Texas, a state with a history of staunchly backing New York moguls, won last week’s midterm elections. Many people wonder how they will react after
On his visits to Lone Star State, from before 2016 to a recent rally in South Texas last month, Trump raised significant sums of money for the campaign and received a warm welcome from Texas Republicans.
Below is a timeline of Trump’s rise to the top of the Republican Party and the role Texas played in his rise.
June 2015: Trump launches campaign
At Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in New York City, the real estate mogul and star of the reality show The Apprentice unveiled his 2016 campaign.
“Sadly the American Dream is dead,” Trump said at the end of his speech, CNN reported. “But if I am elected president, we can bring it back bigger, better, and stronger than ever.”
June 2016: Cruz called Trump a ‘snotty coward’
Trump and Texas Senator Ted Cruz, then a leading Republican presidential candidate, called Trump a “sneering coward” after Trump insulted Cruz’s wife, Heidi.
Just three months later, in September, Cruz stepped back and endorsed Mr. Trump, whom he called a “pathological liar,” calling him “Liar Ted” throughout the primary.
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November 2016: Trump wins the 2016 presidential election
Trump shocked the country and the world with his 2016 victory.
“Our movement was not a campaign, it was an incredible movement,” Trump told happy supporters at an early-morning election party. there is no.”
October 2017: Trump raises $4 million in Dallas
During a visit that began with a briefing on Hurricane Harvey recovery efforts by Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, Trump raised $4 million from 200 donors in a back-to-back event at the Bello mansion. Welcome home, cheat! ” from the protesters.
October 2018: Trump calls himself a ‘nationalist’
At a rally in Houston, Trump declared himself a proud “nationalist” to the disgust of critics and academics. Cruz declined to accept the label, but Senator John Cornyn didn’t seem to have a problem with it.
“I call myself American first and foremost. If that makes me a nationalist, so be it,” Konin said.
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December 2019: Trump impeached for the first time
In 2019, the Democratic majority in the House formally accused him of abusing his office and obstructing Congress by withholding documents and banning testimony in a plot to pressure Ukraine to harm its political rival. After voting to denounce, Trump became the third US president to be impeached. From superiors.
November 2020: Trump loses
President Joe Biden surpassed by securing the 270 electoral votes needed to win the 2020 presidential election. Since the election ended, Trump has repeatedly claimed the election was illegal and that it was stolen from him without evidence.The issue remains popular among Republican voters. , prompting many Republican candidates to incorporate it into their campaign platforms for midterm elections.
In December, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the results of the four states that helped Biden win the election.
January 2021: Capitol riot, second impeachment
A week after the deadly Jan. 6 riots in the Capitol and just a week before the president’s term ends, the House of Representatives was forced to flee mobs seeking to overturn Trump’s defeat on Jan. 6. MPs impeached him. incitement to rebellion. “
Trump made history as the only US president to be impeached twice.
August 6, 2022: Trump at CPAC in Dallas
Trump used the conservative conference arena to reiterate his view that the 2020 election was stolen from him, saying, “Right now, our country is being systematically destroyed. I know that… I ran twice and won twice,” he said.
“America is in the abyss, and our movement is the only force on earth that can save it.”
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August 8, 2022: Search for Mar-a-Lago
The FBI has searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago mansion as part of an investigation into whether Trump brought classified records from the White House to his Florida residence. Trump revealed the search in a lengthy statement, claiming agents opened the safe at his home, describing their work as “an unannounced raid” and likening it to “prosecutorial misconduct.”
