‘I don’t see that at all,’ he said.
Former President Donald Trump said in a new interview that he likely will not run for president again if he loses the 2024 election against Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee.
Trump, 78, made the comments during an interview with former CBS News journalist Sharyl Attkisson published on Sept. 22.
“If you’re not successful this time, do you see yourself running again in four years?” she asked the Republican nominee.
“No, I don’t. I think that that will be—that will be it. I don’t see that at all,” Trump said.
“I think that, hopefully, we’re going to be successful [in the 2024 General Election].”
In the wide-ranging interview with Attkisson, Trump was also asked about a number of issues, including the economy, inflation, illegal immigration, and the two recent assassination attempts against him.
When asked about his plan to deal with inflation, the former president said: “They come down with energy, and they come down with interest rates. We’re going to get … energy down by 50 percent in 12 months.”
“I’m not just talking about cars. I’m talking about air conditioning, heating, your basic energy, operating a bakery, operating any kind of a business—it’s all having to do with energy.”
Trump also spoke separately to Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade on Sept. 21 about whether he’s concerned about his family’s security in light of the two assassination attempts.
“I do. I do. I don’t talk about it, but I do. I have to worry about family. I have to worry about everybody. I worry about you,” he responded.
Trump then pivoted to illegal immigration, suggesting that millions of people, including convicted criminals, who have come into the United States in recent years have made the country a more dangerous place to live. He made similar, immigration-related comments in his interview with Attkisson.
In the two interviews, Trump provided few details about the two assassination attempts, the most recent of which occurred on Sept. 15 while he was golfing at his Florida golf course. In July, Trump was shot in the ear and narrowly escaped death when a 20-year-old shooter fired at a rally while the former president was speaking in Butler, Pennsylvania.
