A LASER-FOCUSED RUN ONCE AGAIN... TRUMP READY TO SAYS EX-TOP AIDE
DONALD Trump is poised to run for president again in 2024 and can beat Joe Biden to the White House, one of his closest allies claims.
The controversial Republican is “laser focused” on a political comeback, according to Jason Miller, Mr Trump’s chief spokesman in his victorious 2016 campaign and senior adviser when he lost last year.
Mr Miller believes the former US president would beat Mr Biden easily to pull off a remarkable return to power.
He said: “I think President Trump runs again in 2024.The polling right now shows that he is actually beating Joe Biden and is well ahead.”
And while Mr Miller noted that a formal decision has not been made by Mr Trump, he pointed to recent rallies in places such as Alabama, where 50,000 people attended.
Many allies of the ex-president thought he would give up the fight and perhaps be a kingmaker for the next Republican candidate.
Indeed, Mr Miller also noted that after his defeat and failed legal challenges against the Democrat victory, the former president was “only 20
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per cent” likely to run again.
But Mr Trump took a six-month break, re-emerging at “about the time things were going wrong” for President Biden.
Now Mr Miller is sure there will be a Trump 2024 campaign.
He pointed to the unpopularity of Joe Biden, “with some of the worst ratings for a president in history”, and said many of Mr Trump’s predictions have come true and are behind the decision to run again.
The adviser added: “This is why I think President Trump runs in 2024, the way he’s talked of late, the laser focus he has.
“You say things on the campaign trail such as, ‘If Joe Biden is elected he’s going to push the allowed millions of undocumented illegals in the country’. Or, ‘If Biden is selected the Chinese will take control of everything in the South China Sea’.
“You have your campaign trail hyperbole that you say but rarely does that become true.
“In almost every example, that is kind of what we’re seeing has come true. This is why President Trump is so focused right now. [But] he hasn’t made a formal decision.”
Mr Miller says the Republican nomination is there for his former boss’s taking if he wants it, with
around 60 per cent of party faithful backing him.
In the frame, too, is Florida governor Ron Desantis, who has won plaudits for taking on the so-called “woke” culture and his anti-lockdown stance. He has a 13 per cent backing rate and Mr Miller predicts he will get the nomination if Mr Trump decides not to stand.
The election strategist believes the 2020 US election was “legally stolen” from the Trump campaign and says he has two regrets.
He believes the US Right should have had an alternative social media
in place after Twitter and Facebook restricted the spread of material critical of Mr Biden, particularly his son Hunter, who was linked to a financial scandal. He also admitted he “did not think [tech giants] would go there” in kicking Mr Trump off the platforms, which happened after the election.
Mr Miller is visiting London to promote his new social media platform, GETTR, which is taking on Twitter and other sites.
His second regret, he says, is that Mr Trump’s team did not challenge changes to the law on voting before
the election, and left it until after the count. Many of the changes allowed much wider use of postal votes due to the pandemic, leading to the Trump camp’s claims of massive fraud.
“The media narrative was sour grapes and it was very difficult,” he said. “We should have challenged it before.”
Mr Miller warned the same could happen against conservatives in other elections around the world, such as Hungary and Brazil.
But he insisted the mid-term polls for Congress next year will be “payplatform
back” for many Americans who feel tricked by the current White House incumbent.
He added: “They were promised rainbows, they thought things would be much better without the mean tweets, but things are much worse.”
However, Mr Miller believes President Biden will not attempt a second term in thewhite House.
He said: “I don’t think it is going to be Joe Biden he [Trump] runs against. He [Biden] probably finishes his term even after how disastrous these months for the Biden presidency has been. The Afghan
withdrawal was a disaster. It was a common goal but it was the way he did it. People say Trump would have withdrawn from Afghanistan too, which is true.
“But it’s like saying the common objective is to cross the street but it’s not the common objective to get hit by a truck crossing the street.”
He also accused the Biden administration of weakness over China.
Mr Miller said illegal immigration is also a problem and suggested describing the Mexican border as “like Swiss cheese” is “generous”.
There are also fears of hyperinflation
and the ongoing problems with the culture war.
While he suggested current Vice President Kamala Harris was the Democrats’ most likely presidential candidate, he dismissed the idea that Meghan Markle, Prince Harry’s wife, could make a bid with them.
“I don’t think she would be elected anywhere. With anyone who is right of centre she would never get anywhere because of her Trump bashing.
“Just her elitist attitude and life would make it difficult even in a Democratic Party primary. People would say, ‘No, I thought we kind of excised that from the party.’”
Mr Miller added: “I’m very into the Royal Family and rules 1, 2 and 3 are ‘respect the Queen’. It’s not that complicated.”
He believes a second Trump presidency would make tackling China a priority with a demand for reparations for allegedly starting the Covid pandemic.
He said: “The focus would have been on China. His agenda was ending the dependence on China. That would have been the focus when he got back in. Demand reparations
from China. That’s very much on [if he wins again]. In his postpresidency rhetoric there are much more references to the Chinese Communist Party.”
But Mr Miller believes the next election will be won on a culture war, with the US divided over the Black Lives Matter movement and Democrats pushing a woke agenda.
“I think it will be the Democratic overreach and crazy ideological things. Some of the things like the woke culture, critical race theory, everything is cancel culture and transgender, the lockdowns will be a factor as well as illegal immigration.
“A lot of Democrats will be wiped out because of payback on Biden.
“He has one of the worst numbers a president has ever had.”
In the future, Mr Miller said he could see Mr Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, and son, Donald Junior, making a bid for the presidency.
“I think nobody could beat Donald Junior in a primary but nobody could beat Ivanka in a national election,” he said.
But he added: “They are still young so they have time.”