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Donald Trump would “absolutely” run for the US presidency again if he loses this election to Joe Biden, said the president’s special envoy for Northern Ireland, Mick Mulvaney.
Mulvaney, who served as Trump’s chief of staff in the White House before assuming his current position, said the US president did not like to lose and would be younger than Biden now if he decided to run in 2024.
“I would absolutely hope that the president would stay involved in politics and would absolutely put him on the list of people who are likely to run in 2024,” he said at a webinar organized by the Dublin think tank, the Institute of International Affairs and Europeans. .
The former Republican congressman described Trump as a “very high-energy 74-year-old man” who hopes “to participate more in 2024 or 2028 if he loses the next election.”
Mulvaney rejected suggestions that Trump’s decision to take legal action on voting in the elections was a threat to the democratic process.
He said that “the lawsuits were part of closed elections” and that “everyone was advocating,” including Biden’s campaign team.
“It should come as no surprise that there are lawyers and there are lawsuits and it is not a tacit admission of loss, nor is it a declaration of victory,” he said.
He dismissed as “crazy” a suggestion that Trump was “mounting a coup” by stating that he believed he won the vote in his election night speech.
Mulvaney said there would be “a peaceful transition or retention of power” on the day of inauguration on January 20.
“Could things get really messy and slow between now and then? Absolutely. By the way, they were also in 2000, but we managed to overcome it, ”he said, referring to the controversial elections between George W Bush and Al Gore.
“The American elections can be a sloppy and ugly thing, but it’s like making a law that we describe as making hot dogs: nobody wants it to happen, but you enjoy the end product.
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