"Trump's Waco Rally for 2024 Campaign Proceeds Despite Sabotage Plot and Lack of Congressional Support"
Former President Donald Trump plans to hold his first rally of the 2024 presidential campaign in Waco, Texas, on the 30th anniversary of the deadly standoff involving federal agents and followers of David Koresh that left 82 Branch Davidians and four agents dead. While Trump has not linked the rally to the anniversary, some of his supporters see it as a nod to the most infamous episode in Waco's history. The Waco standoff has remained a cause for contemporary far-right groups like the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys, and Trump's decision to begin his campaign there, if intentional in its nod to the siege, would echo Ronald Reagan's August 1980 speech affirming his support of "states' rights" at a county fair near Philadelphia, Miss., a town known for the murder of three civil rights activists 16 years earlier.