Republican Donald Trump said he would not run for a fourth consecutive presidential election if he loses the Nov. 5 election, saying “that'll be it” in an interview published Sunday. Reuters reported.
Asked if he saw himself running again in four years if he is unsuccessful in his third consecutive bid for the White House, the 78-year-old former president told Sharyl Attkisson's “Full Measure”: “No, I don't think so. I think it will be like this, that's all it will be. I don't see it at all. Hopefully, we'll be successful.”
Trump faces a tight race against Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, with polls showing the two tied in key states that will likely be decisive in determining the winner, even as Harris has begun to rise in national polls.
Trump launched his first re-election bid for the 2020 election on the same day as his inauguration in 2017 and announced his last bid for the White House two years ago, in November 2022.
Trump has continued to falsely blame widespread voter fraud for his 2020 loss to Democratic President Joe Biden and faces federal and state criminal charges over his attempts to overturn the election results. He denies any wrongdoing and has cast his allegations as a political attack against him, while adopting increasingly dystopian rhetoric should he lose in 2024.
He has also launched several business ventures amid his latest campaign, including Trump Media, NFTs, Trump-branded sneakers, coins and cryptocurrencies.
Harris, 59, has meanwhile cast the race as a critical moment for American democracy, even as she seeks to focus on broader issues such as housing and family costs.
Asked if 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 had done it … next door.”
“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 positions in his White House Cabinet if he wins in November.
