Donald Trump said he would not make a fourth consecutive run for the US presidency if he lost the November 5 election, saying, “That will be it,” in an interview released on Sunday.
Asked if he saw himself running again in four years if he is unsuccessful in his third consecutive bid for the White House, the former president told Sharyl Attkisson’s “Full Measure” program: “No I don’t. I think that will be — that will be it. I don’t see that at all. Hopefully, we will be successful.”
Asked whether the four-year break helped him regroup and figure out who he could trust as allies, Trump said: “It would have been easier if I did it … contiguous.”
“But the benefit is more than anything else, it shows how bad they were,” he added.
Trump, who spoke with Attkisson at his Florida resort, also said it was “too early” to make deals with people for any position in his White House cabinet should he win in November.
Trump faces a tight race against Democratic Kamala Harris, with polls showing the two neck-and-neck in key battleground states that are likely to be decisive in determining the winner, even as Harris has begun to edge up in nationwide polls.
Trump launched his first reelection bid for the 2020 election on the same day he was inaugurated in 2017 and announced his latest White House bid two years ago in November 2022.
