© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump gestures at a marketing campaign rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, U.S., September 21, 2024. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photograph
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican Donald Trump mentioned that he won’t make a fourth consecutive run for the U.S. presidency if he loses the Nov. 5 election, saying “that will be it” in an interview launched on Sunday.
Requested if he noticed himself operating once more in 4 years if he isn’t profitable in his third consecutive bid for the White Home, the 78-year-old former president advised Sharyl Attkisson’s “Full Measure” program: “No I don’t. I think that will be — that will be it. I don’t see that at all. Hopefully, we will be successful.”
Trump faces a decent race in opposition to Democratic U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, with polls displaying the 2 neck-and-neck in key battleground states which might be more likely to be decisive in figuring out the winner, at the same time as Harris has begun to edge up in nationwide polls.
Trump launched his first reelection bid for the 2020 election the identical day he was inaugurated in 2017 and introduced his newest White Home bid two years in the past in November 2022.
Trump has continued to falsely blame his 2020 loss to Democratic President Joe Biden on widespread voter fraud and faces federal and state prison fees over efforts to overturn the election outcomes. He denies any wrongdoing and has solid his indictments as a political assault in opposition to him whereas embracing more and more dystopian rhetoric if he have been to lose in 2024.
He has additionally launched a lot of companies ventures amid his newest marketing campaign, together with Trump Media, NFTs, and Trump branded sneakers, cash and crypto.
Harris, 59, in the meantime, has solid the race as a vital second for U.S. democracy at the same time as she seeks to deal with kitchen-table points equivalent to prices for households and housing.
Requested whether or not the 4 12 months break helped him regroup and determine who he might belief as allies, Trump mentioned: “It would have been easier if I did it … contiguous.”
“But the benefit is more than anything else, it shows how bad they were,” he added.
Trump, who spoke with Attkisson at his Florida resort, additionally mentioned it was “too early” to make offers with individuals for any place in his White Home cupboard ought to he win in November.
