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US President Donald Trump is reportedly considering announcing a bid for the presidency in 2024 during the inauguration of his successor Joe Biden on January 20, 2021, according to a report on Saturday.
Trump is exploring how to better schedule an ad, including the possibility of a campaign event to compete with the opening ceremony, the Daily Beast reported, citing two sources with “direct knowledge of the matter.”
According to sources, Trump has bragged that American television networks will continue to cover him as he gains high ratings and because they find Biden “boring.”
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CNN reported earlier this month, while the election results were still being counted, that Trump’s advisers had already begun discussing another possible presidential nomination in four years. Days later, Axios, which cited two sources familiar with discussions on the issue, said Trump had expressed interest in running for president again in a conversation with his top advisers.
As a one-term president, Trump may re-seek the presidency for an additional term at a future date. If he runs again in 2024, he will be 78 years old, seven months older than Joe Biden, the oldest president-elect in American history, who is now.
United States President-elect Joe Biden, accompanied by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, speaks at The Queen Theater in Wilmington, Delaware on November 19, 2020 (AP Photo / Andrew Harnik).
Trump has made an unprecedented attempt to challenge the results of the November 3 vote, spreading wild theories about stolen ballots and launching unfounded legal challenges that have been rejected by courts across the country.
Trump said Thursday that he would leave the White House if Biden is officially confirmed as the winner, but repeated that he may never concede defeat.
In answering journalists’ questions for the first time since the election, the president came close to accepting that he would only serve one term before Biden replaces him.
When asked if he would leave the White House if the Electoral College confirmed Biden’s victory, Trump said: “I certainly will. And you know.”
“This was a massive fraud,” Trump said of the election result, again without providing any evidence.
But “if they do, they made a mistake,” he said, adding, “It’s going to be a very difficult thing to admit.”
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