Former US president Donald Trump said that he would not make a fourth consecutive run for the US presidency if he loses the Nov. 5 election, saying “that will be it” in an interview released on Sunday.
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 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.”
Republican presidential candidate Trump faces a tight race against Democratic candidate US 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.
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Trump launched his first re-election 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.
Trump has continued to falsely blame his 2020 loss to US President Joe Biden on widespread voter fraud, and faces federal and state criminal charges over efforts to overturn the election results. He denies any wrongdoing and has cast his indictments as a political attack against him while embracing increasingly dystopian rhetoric if he were to lose this year.
He has also launched a number of businesses ventures amid his latest campaign, including Trump Media, non-fungible tokens, and Trump branded sneakers, coins and cryptocurrency.
Harris, 59, has cast the race as a critical moment for US democracy even as she seeks to focus on kitchen-table issues such as costs for families and housing.
Trump, who spoke with Attkisson at his Florida resort, also said it was “too early” to make deals with people for any position in the White House should he win in November.
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