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“I think, in terms of movement—you can use that word if you want—but I think it’s even stronger than it was in 2016,” Trump said in an interview backstage after his speech to the annual National Rifle Association (NRA) gathering here earlier this month. “People saw what we can do.”

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“I think it’s bigger now than it was then,” Trump said. “Now we’ve been tested. We had four great years, and we did things nobody thought could be done, including cutting taxes at the highest level, cutting regulations at a level that gave us the most jobs we ever had. Indiana was a big beneficiary. Indiana was a state that was taken advantage of by foreign countries taking jobs away. Indiana became a boomtown. In fact, I just endorsed, as you know, a great gentleman, Jim Banks. There’s nobody even running against him now—they all dropped out after the endorsement—but I think he’ll be a great senator. Hopefully, nobody will run against him, but if they did, I don’t think it even matters. He’s going to do a great job, and he’s very popular. We have to change it.”

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Trump, who in this interview also hit Biden over immigration and the economy and foreign policy, slammed the Biden administration’s radical green agenda.

“All electric cars, no gas stoves, water faucets where water doesn’t come out? How about the water faucets where water doesn’t come out?” Trump said.

Asked why he thinks this movement is bigger and stronger than it was in 2016, Trump said that people feel like their country is slipping away from them.

“They want their country back. It’s simple,” Trump said. “They want their country back. Their country has been taken away from them. On top of it, whenever something happens, they get accused of the worst things. All they want is common sense. You know what it’s about? We can all say we’re conservative or this or that, but it’s really about common sense. We need borders. We need good schools. We want low prices. We don’t want inflation. We want a strong military. We want no regulations or as little as possible. You know, it’s common sense—most of it. They want that back.”

This post was edited on 4/25/23 at 6:20 pm