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President Donald Trump is reportedly planning to run for the White House in 2024 and is considering hosting a related event on Inauguration Day for President-elect Joe Biden.
Trump has spoken with his confidants and his closest advisers about the possible launch of a campaign in 2024 and the best time to announce it to keep the Republican Party behind him until the next election, three sources said. The daily beast on Saturday.
For the past two weeks, Trump has floated the idea of holding an event in 2024 in the week of Biden’s inauguration if his legal battles challenging the election results fail, two of the sources said.
The news comes as the vote count in Wisconsin, which cost the Trump administration $ 3 million, extended Biden’s lead in the crucial state. Sun reports.
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Privately, Trump has bragged that the media attention will remain on him because he brings audiences and ratings to the media who find Biden “boring” to cover him.
Trump and his associates have reportedly started asking big donors if they would back him in 2024, and some of the president’s main allies are seemingly staying on his good side should he decide to run.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Sun on Saturday.
Earlier this month, Trump told National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien, Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that he plans to run for president in 2024 if the 2020 results don’t swing in his favor. Bloomberg reported Thursday.
“If you do that, and I think I speak for everyone in the room, we are with you 100%,” O’Brien said during the meeting in the Oval Office.
Trump has not relented, despite setbacks in various efforts to challenge and overturn election results in battle states.
On Thursday at the White House, Trump told a reporter that “it is going to be a very difficult thing to admit because we know there was massive fraud.”
The Trump administration spent several million dollars on recount requests in Milwaukee and Dane counties in Wisconsin, which the president lost to Biden by more than 20,000 votes.
On Friday, Milwaukee County elections officials finalized the recount and announced that Biden actually got 257 votes, while Trump only got 125 more.
This article originally appeared in The Sun and was reproduced with permission.
