Ex-Trump Adviser: Trump in a Good Spot To Run in 2024 if He Loses
By Jack Davis
Published November 6, 2020 at 7:18am
Even if, by the margin of a stack of contested mail-in ballots, Democrat Joe Biden wins the presidential election, one former Trump adviser is telling Americans not to toss out those “Make America Great Again” lawn signs.
Bryan Lanza, communications director for President Donald Trump’s transition team after Trump’s 2016 triumph, said the president is in a good position to “run again four years from now.”
In 2024, Trump “will be younger than Joe Biden than his current bid for the presidency, so age isn’t the issue,” Lanza told the BBC Radio 4 program “Today” this week, according to The Independent.
Lanza identified COVID-19 as a chief issue on Biden’s watch, if he is proclaimed the winner.
“Biden will have the opportunity to guide this country out of COVID, and we’ll see what his successes and failures are. And there’s nobody in the Republican Party that can challenge President Trump in the primaries,” Lanza said.
Should Trump “lose a very tight election” he can “make a strong case to run again,” Lanza said.
After all, Trump received just shy of 63 million votes to win the 2016 election, according to the Federal Election Commission.
Even with all the votes from Tuesday not counted, Trump is at over 69 million votes this time around, The New York Times reported.
By way of contrast, 2012 GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney received about 59 million votes, according to NBC News. Former President Ronald Reagan, in his 1984 landslide victory, garnered slightly less than 54.5 million votes.
Given Trump’s ability to get votes and the unprecedented loyalty his supporters have shown, “the Republicans would step aside to let it happen,” Lanza said, referring to the possibility that Trump loses this year and runs again in 2024. https://www.westernjournal.com/ap-trump-campaign-takes-fight-mail- fraud-large-blue-county/? ff_source=Email&ff_medium=WJBreaking&ff_campaign=breaking&ff_content =western-journal Speaking about Trump’s attempt to throw shade on Biden’s vote totals, Lanza said, “I don’t think it’s different from what the Democrats did when they told Americans that Russians were involved in Donald Trump’s election four years ago.”
Others are speculating about what Trump might do if the legal challenges he is mounting do not go his way.
“I would absolutely expect the president to stay involved in politics and would absolutely put him on the shortlist of people who are likely to run in 2024,” Mick Mulvaney, former acting White House chief of staff and now Trump’s special envoy to Northern Ireland, said Thursday, according to The Irish Times.
#1: NeoconsNailed To: BTP Holdings (#0)
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-11-06 12:05:49 Reply Private Reply
#2: Pinguinite To: BTP Holdings (#0)
I'd thought of that. Trump has lots of stamina but he is up in years.
I expect he'll play a role in 2024 regardless. Hell, even if he manages a win this time, he could run as someone's VP in 2024, couldn't he? That would be a hoot!
Pinguinite posted on 2020-11-06 12:26:07 Reply Private Reply
#3: Esso To: BTP Holdings, 4um (#0)
I doubt Trump wants to be the reincarnation of Grover Cleveland.
I'm surprised that he didn't walk away during his first term after all the bullshit the dems pulled.
Esso posted on 2020-11-06 12:45:06 Reply Private Reply
#4: BTP Holdings To: Pinguinite (#2)
Do you really think he would take the VP slot in 2024 after he has sat in the Oval Office as top dog? ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-11-06 12:54:00 Reply Private Reply
#5: Pinguinite To: BTP Holdings (#4)
He would if it would PO the Dem establishment and Deep state. The prez would have to be someone that would let him do everything possible, including giving the state of the union address.
Pinguinite posted on 2020-11-06 13:00:13 Reply Private Reply
#6: BTP Holdings To: Pinguinite (#5)
The SOTU address has traditionally been given by POTUS. I am not sure how POTUS could bow out of giving the presentation if Trump were VP. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-11-06 13:14:07 Reply Private Reply
#7: BTP Holdings To: Esso (#3)
Especially Pelousy pre-tearing her copy of SOTU address just so she could make a big show of tearing it up. :-/
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-11-06 13:22:11 Reply Private Reply
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Screen Name posted on 2020-11-06 13:51:36 Reply Private Reply
#9: BTP Holdings To: Screen Name (#8)
It will be worse then the events of 9-11-2001 when George W. Bush was handed his head. That was a bloodless coup. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-11-06 15:13:42 Reply Private Reply
#10: Pinguinite To: BTP Holdings (#6)
Hell, if the president wants to have the VP standing right next to him as he gives the speech and pull off a SOTU speech in Diamond and Silk fashion, who's gonna tell him he can't?
Pinguinite posted on 2020-11-06 16:18:08 Reply Private Reply
#11: Cynicom To: BTP Holdings (#9)
Too late, the horse is out of the barn, the barn is afire and the insurance has lapsed.
Trump has no one but himself to blame. He played by the rules AND LOST.
Trump should have cleaned house but did not.
He should have known when Sessions stuck the knife in his back that this was not going to be a "ladies tea party".
Playing nice has cost him and this country.
Barr and Wray must be brought into the spotlight, either produce something RIGHT NOW or duckwalk the bastards out of office.
Cynicom posted on 2020-11-06 16:44:36 Reply Private Reply
#12: BTP Holdings To: Cynicom (#11)
I know it is too late. :-/
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-11-06 16:56:28 Reply Private Reply
#13: Cynicom To: BTP Holdings (#12)
Four long years and not one democrat has gone to jail.
Look at current Biden family mess?
What are Wray and Barr doing????
Cynicom posted on 2020-11-06 17:11:38 Reply Private Reply
#14: BTP Holdings To: Cynicom (#13)
They must be playing Tiddlywinks. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-11-06 19:10:05 Reply Private Reply
#15: Cynicom To: BTP Holdings (#14)
If either Biden, Peeloosely or both get sidelined in the first year, the swamp has won. Both are but useful idiots.
Schiffs sister is married to George Soros son. That is where the money comes from. Peeloosely and Biden are throwaways.
Cynicom posted on 2020-11-06 19:37:41 Reply Private Reply