Trump could run again in 2024 if he loses election

With polls predicting doom for Donald, ex-adviser warns...

DONALD Trump will run for president again in 2024 if he loses to Joe Biden in this year’s US election, his former chief strategist predicted yesterday.

Steve Bannon, one of the architects of the President’s shock 2016 victory, warned: ‘You’re not going to see the end of Donald Trump,’ if the election is ‘stolen’ from him next month.

Mr Bannon, sacked six months after Mr Trump took office, predicted this year’s result would end up in the Supreme Court and take months to resolve. But in the end he still expected his former boss to prevail.

With just two weeks to go until the election, Mr Trump, 74, is trailing Mr Biden, 77, by nine points in national polls and behind in surveys of many key swing states.

Mr Bannon said the election is going to be ‘closer than is being reported’ but ‘ Mr Trump will win on election day’.

He added: ‘I’ll make this prediction right now: if for any reason the election is stolen from [Mr Trump] or, in some sort of way, Joe Biden is declared the winner, Trump will announce he’s going to run for re-election in 2024.’ The former White House strategist, who had previously operated in the shadows, became increasingly prominent following the Republican election win in 2016.

Rumours of Mr Trump’s displeasure grew during the early months of the presidency before a candid interview in which Mr Ban-result non contradicted policy and talked of his own plans for a reshuffle saw him lose his job in the summer of 2017. Regarding the current election, Mr Bannon claimed it could go to a vote in the House of Representatives, the US government’s lower house, and the

‘ won’t be settled any time soon’. Speaking to an Australian newspaper, he said the result may even be adjudicated in the Supreme Court, like the 2000 George Bush vs Al Gore election when the candidates argued over a recount of votes in Florida. After being forced from the campaign trail for a week when he caught the coronavirus, Mr Trump is now on a sprint around the swing states in a bid to shore up votes.

Thanks to the US electoral college system, if the President takes all Republican-leaning states, and Mr Biden all Democratic areas, the President will have 125 votes to Mr Biden’s 212, The New York Times has predicted. Victory is declared by the first candidate to reach 270 electoral college votes.

‘Won’t be settled any time soon’