Only One Rep Showed Up For Trump’s 2024 Speech

The Washington Post reports:

Republican office holders conspicuously avoided Mar-a-Lago for Trump’s “special announcement.” Even Trumpophilic Rep. Matt Gaetz (Fla.) begged off, claiming bad weather kept him from flying from Washington to Palm Beach, when in fact air travel Tuesday was normal.

Reporters spotted only one current member of Congress: Rep. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina — and he was defeated in a primary.

Trump aide Jason Miller promised a 35-minute, “very forward-looking” speech. Instead, it was interminable, meandering and, well, low-energy, as Trump kept departing from the teleprompter into gibberish. He spoke nonsense: “I’ve gone decades — decades — without a war, the first president to do it that long,” he said of his four-year term.

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Madison Cawthorn posts video supporting Trump: “I will follow this man until the day I die, barring some terrible information.” pic.twitter.com/qLrpgzzkMh

— PatriotTakes ?? (@patriottakes) November 16, 2022

the only member of Congress to attend Trump’s announcement lost his primary to a much less controversial local politician: https://t.co/70V1OxtlRM

— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) November 16, 2022