Conservative radio talk show host Larry Elder announced Thursday that he is jumping into the race for the 2024 Republican presidential primary, joining a growing field of candidates vying for the party’s nomination.
“I am announcing that I am running for president of the United States,” the elder told Fox News host Tucker Carlson. “I feel I have a moral, religious and patriotic duty to give something back to a country that has been so good to me and my family, and that’s why I’m doing it,” she said.
The 70-year-old political commentator told Carlson that his campaign would focus on issues related to border security, crime and “defamation of the police”.
Elder also noted that he intends to rebuke the “shameful lie” that America is systematically racist and call attention to the “fatherlessness in the home.”
“America is in decline, but this decline is not inevitable. We may be entering a new American Golden Age, but we must choose a leader who can take us there. That’s why I’m running for president,” Elder wrote in a statement posted on Twitter following his announcement. His campaign slogan appears to be “We have a country to save!”
Elder was the primary opponent of California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom during a failed 2021 effort in the state to remove the governor over his response to the pandemic. Elder is expected to speak at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition this weekend, where he will be joined by other 2024 Republican Party presidential candidates, including former President Donald Trump, former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson and Carolina Senator of the South. Tim Scott, who launched an exploratory committee last week.
Former governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy have also launched presidential campaigns for 2024.
