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Donald Trump predicted that as the presumptive GOP nominee for president in 2024, he will not face either President Joe Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris in the general election.
Trump made the prognostication during a sit-down with alt-right publication Breitbart News.
The former president told reporters Matthew Boyle and Alexander Marlow that he hoped Biden would be the Democrat’s nominee, but said he “can’t believe” that would actually happen.
“He’s a cheater. He’s a scoundrel. He’s a bad guy,” Trump said of Biden. “But in his life, he’s always been able to convince people he’s this really nice guy. I laugh when they say, ‘Trump is the evil one, and he’s the nice one.’ That’s the one thing he’s been able to do. All you have to do is look at his credentials. When you compare him today to 15 or 20 years ago, he’s a different kind of a guy. The guy can’t talk. The guy can’t put two sentences together. So I do think this: I cannot believe he’s going to be the nominee. I hope he is. But I can’t believe he’s going to be the nominee.”
Trump told Breitbart he didn’t think Harris would be the nominee because of “failures on major national policy items” that “will prove too daunting for Democrats” to accept.
Naturally, the reporters then asked who Trump thought he would run against, but the former president didn’t have an answer. Instead, he said he thought the situation would end in a “free-for-all” among Democrats hoping to become the 2024 nominee.
“That, I can’t tell you,” Trump said of a potential Democrat nominee. “There will be a point at which it’s a free-for-all.”
He added, “I don’t think that Biden will make it to the gate.”
Read the Breitbart article here.
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