Trump Seems To Be Sending Out Signals That He Will Run Again In 2024, But According To A Report, There’s One Thing That Could Change His Mind

He's never going to go away.


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Former President Donald Trump has teased his supporters with another run for office in 2024, but he hasn’t come out and directly said it. And it would be odd if he ran since he never conceded the 2020 race he lost to President Joe Biden in the popular and electoral vote. The twice-impeached one-term President left the White House in disgrace, but Republicans still covet his endorsements, and he has raised more than $100 million. According to CNN, there’s a good chance that Trump will run in 2024.

‘One current Trump adviser said the former President was “still pretty dejected up until a few months ago when his whole demeanor started changing the worse things became for Biden,”‘ the outlet reports. ‘Only then, the adviser said, did Trump begin “seriously thinking about 2024 and what he needs to do this year so that he’s in a solid position for another campaign.”‘

“Trump has virtually no plans to pursue a real retirement anytime soon,” the report continues.

“His aides say the former President views 2022 as an opportunity to further tighten his grip on the Republican Party by working to usher in a new class of “America First” officials at local, state and national levels,” CNN reports. “With this mission in mind, he is expected to maintain a steady stream of public appearances in the coming months.”

“Three Trump advisers said his behavior in public and private over the past four months has left them with the impression that he does plan to run again as long as he thinks he can win,” the report continues. “One of those indicators is Trump’s increased outreach to pollster Tony Fabrizio, who compiled a 27-page autopsy after the 2020 election that detailed which demographics had drifted away from Trump and sought to explain the reasons for those shifts.”

“He started bugging Tony once Biden got under 50% approval. Trump sees him as an honest broker,” one Trump adviser said.

“The theory among Trump’s allies is that the former President will run in 2024 if Biden’s approval rating is still hovering in the low 40s next spring because, Trump and his team believe, that would indicate a loss of support for Biden among independent voters,” the outlet reports.

“But if Biden is back up to 46% approval or above, everyone is universally in agreement that Trump is out,” the Trump adviser said.

So, Trump doesn’t really believe that polls are “fake,” then? We kind of knew that already, though. Biden’s poll numbers are low because two Democratic Senators are blocking the President’s agenda from coming to fruition.

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