Donald Trump has strongly hinted that he might contest the 2024 US presidential election. The former US president has claimed that “everyone” wants him to contest the polls once again, a decision he said will make a “couple of people unhappy”.
The 76-year-old Republican leader, who did not concede defeat in the 2020 US presidential election to his Democratic Party opponent Joe Biden, asserted that “we didn’t lose”.
In an interview to NDTV, the former president said, “Everyone wants me to run, I’m leading in the polls…I’ll make a decision in the very near future, I suspect. And I think that a lot of people are going to be very happy.”
“I think so. A lot of people will be (happy); and a couple of people will be unhappy,” he said without naming those who won’t be pleased with his decision to seek another term in the White House in 2024.
According to the Hindustan Times, while not acknowledging Biden’s win and his inauguration as the 46th US President in January 2021, Trump himself has spread unproven allegations of electoral fraud in key US states, despite repeated pushback from election officials and judges in several court cases.
Answering a question on whether he could defeat Biden,79, in the presidential polls if the latter also chooses to run, Trump said he will beat his rival “easily”.
“Well, in the polls, I’m leading by a lot. I would think I beat him easily. I think I beat him last time. I don’t think… if you look at the numbers, you look at what happened. I beat him by a lot. Last time. I got many millions of more votes last time than I did the first time. You know, in 2016, we ran a great campaign. But I ran a better campaign in 2020,” he said.
“I think we ran a much better campaign. I got 12 million more votes (than the previous time) or close to 12 million more votes. I got more votes than any sitting president in history,” Trump said.
When asked, what would be his important thing on his agenda for America if he becomes the president again, Trump claimed he will strive to make the US energy independent.
“We’re going to be energy independent, we’re going to have a great economy, a roaring economy again, which we don’t have right now. Okay, we set every record on jobs. We’ve never had an economy, like the economy that I had. But we’ll bring back energy independence, and we will do things that we haven’t been able to do in the last two years,” he said.
