In an interview that was made public on Sunday, Republican Donald Trump declared that if he loses the election on November 5th, he will not seek the presidency a fourth time.
Asked if he saw himself running again in four years if he is not successful in his third consecutive bid for the White House, the 78-year-old former president told 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 tight race against Democratic U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, with polls showing the two neck-and-neck in key battleground states that are likely to be decisive in determining the winner, even as Harris has begun to edge up in nationwide polls.
Trump launched his first reelection bid for the 2020 election the same day he was inaugurated in 2017 and announced his latest White House bid two years ago in November 2022.
Regarding his attempts to tamper with the election results, Trump is facing federal and state criminal accusations. He has persisted in fabricating the reason behind his defeat to Democratic President Joe Biden in 2020: rampant voting fraud. In addition to denying any misconduct, he has framed the indictments as a political jab at him and has begun to use increasingly dire rhetoric in the event that he loses in 2024.
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In the midst of his most recent campaign, he has also started a number of enterprises, such as Trump Media, NFTs, and Trump-branded coins, sneakers, and cryptocurrency.
Harris, 59, meanwhile, has cast the race as a critical moment for U.S. democracy even as she seeks to focus on kitchen-table issues such as costs for families and housing.
Asked whether the four year break helped him regroup and figure out who he could trust as allies, Trump said: “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, also said it was “too early” to make deals with people for any position in his White House cabinet should he win in November.
