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Former President Donald Trump revealed Thursday that he will hold campaign-style rallies in four battleground states in the coming weeks as speculation swirls that he’ll mount another bid for the White House in 2024.
“Relatively soon, we’ll be doing one in Florida, we’re gonna do one in Ohio, we’re gonna do one in Georgia, we’re gonna do one in North Carolina,” Trump told One America News. “We’ll be announcing them very soon over the next week or two, and I think we’ll probably start in Florida and Ohio and we’ll be announcing the rallies very shortly.”
A source close to the 45th president told The Post last week that Trump would hold at least two rallies in June, with a third event likely to take place around the July 4 holiday.
Trump has sat for several interviews with conservative media outlets since leaving office in January. He made his first major post-presidential speech at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in February and he is scheduled to headline the North Carolina Republican Party’s convention on June 5.
The former president has not addressed supporters in a rally setting since the Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” event, which precipitated the deadly riot at the US Capitol.
While Trump won Florida, Ohio and North Carolina in both the 2016 and 2020 elections, he became the first Republican candidate to lose Georgia in a presidential election since George H.W. Bush in 1992 last year.
The former president has since cast aspersions on the conduct of Georgia election officials, including Republican secretary of state Brad Raffensperger, over his defeat in and insisted without evidence that the loss was the result of voter fraud. Republicans went on to lose both Georgia Senate seats in a pair of special elections in January, handing Democrats full control of Congress and the White House.
Trump again refused to confirm Thursday whether he would run for president in 2024, saying only: “I’m gonna make a decision at the right time and I’ll let you know.”
Additional reporting by Juliegrace Brufke
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