What to expect from President Trump 2.0
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🗓️ 4 January 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Despite being banned from the ballot paper in two states (so far) and multiple legal hurdles, Donald Trump is the clear favourite to return as the Republican candidate for US president, and opinion polls also give him the edge in a rematch with Joe Biden. Trump has joked about becoming a "dictator" for a day if he wins, and says he would carry out mass deportations – and that’s just the beginning of his plans for a second term.
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| 0:00.0 | We are a failing nation. |
| 0:07.0 | a nation in decline. |
| 0:12.0 | He's back, bigger, bolder and brasher than ever. And now these radical left lunatics |
| 0:20.7 | want to interfere with our elections by using law enforcement. It's |
| 0:26.5 | totally corrupt and we can't let it happen. This is the final battle. With you at my side, we will demolish the deep state. |
| 0:37.0 | The race to become the President of the United States of America is kicking off in earnest this month |
| 0:44.8 | as Republicans begin to vote on who will be their candidate in the election. |
| 0:51.0 | Donald Trump is storming ahead in the polls and if he wins the Republican nomination |
| 0:56.4 | then Joe Biden could be in real trouble. |
| 1:00.0 | Donald Trump continues to be strong in the polls. |
| 1:03.0 | He does. There is a Wall Street Journal poll that came out that had him with a four-point lead over Joe Biden. |
| 1:08.0 | That's within the polls margin of error. |
| 1:10.0 | So far in the campaign, Trump fans have enjoyed a rerun of his greatest hits. |
| 1:17.0 | Think America First and tearing up green policies. |
| 1:21.0 | But he's also causing genuine alarm among some voters by |
| 1:26.2 | taking a much more extreme stance on immigration. |
| 1:29.8 | They're ruining our country and it's true. They're destroying the blood of our country. |
| 1:36.2 | That's what they're doing. They're destroying our country. |
| 1:40.2 | President Biden's re-election campaign denounced the comments saying Trump parroted Adolf Hitler. |
| 1:47.0 | And there are fears that Trump himself is encouraged that he could lead the land of the free into a dictatorship. |
| 1:57.0 | Quote, the greatest threat Trump poses is to the country's democracy. So what might a second Trump presidency look like? |
| 2:12.0 | What have we learned from the campaign so far? |
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