"It's going to be crazy," said Donald Trump, who is officially starting the race for the 2020 presidential election tonight in Orlando, Florida.
The current American president, who is not doing very well in the polls, knows that he must impose himself in the "sunny state" if he wants to win a second term like his three predecessors - Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
About 20.000 people are expected
About 20.000 people are expected at the Amway Center, where the basketball club Orlando Magic plays home games of the NBA, reports Hina.
"Fake news isn't talking about it, but the enthusiasm in the Republican party is at an all time high," he wrote in a post on Twitter a few hours before boarding the presidential plane, saying that only a rock concert could generate more enthusiasm.
"Look at what's going on in Orlando right now! You've never seen anything like it (unless you play guitar)," added the 73-year-old president, who is rarely as exuberant as when he's in front of his throngs of supporters.
It's no secret that in the speech that starts at 20:22 p.m. (XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. CET), the former businessman from New York, who is constantly on the pre-election campaign, will announce his candidacy.
Trump, who in the 2016 race presented himself as an anti-establishment and anti-elite candidate, seems determined to maintain an outsider tone and demeanor, but after a few years in office things are different.
"You're more vulnerable the second time," said historian Julian Zelizer of Princeton University.
In the speech, Trump is sure to highlight his successes and brag about the numbers he usually calls the "Trump economy" and threaten an apocalyptic scenario if a Democrat forces him out of the White House. "If anyone else comes to power in 2020, there will be an unprecedented stock market crash!", he announced in a message on Twitter during the past weekend.
Melania is also coming
Vice President Mike Pence and First Lady Melania Trump will also visit Florida.
The voice of Trump's opponents announcing their rallies in the city center will also be heard. In the Orlando sky will float a noisy "baby Trump", a large balloon depicting Trump as an angry child with a mobile phone.
Eight days after that meeting, in Miami, three hundred kilometers to the south, twenty Democratic candidates will meet to face each other in the party primaries.
Just over 500 days before the election, national polls show that Trump will suffer a heavy defeat. The American mid-term elections showed that the Democrats are getting stronger in the so-called Rust belt.
With its 29 electors, Florida is an important federal state in the US presidential elections. In Florida in 2000, real psychodrama took place when the Supreme Court, after an incredible multi-week plot, declared the victory of George W. Bush over Al Gore with 537 votes.
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