Former president Donald Trump said he believes it’s unlikely any other Republican could beat him if he ran for president again in 2024.
“I can’t imagine it if I decide to do that—I haven’t decided to do that,” Trump told Newsmax on Sunday.
He touted the job he did for the country during his first term.
“We had the greatest economy in history and then we rebuilt it a second time and the foundations were so strong that no other country can even compete with us,” he said. “I think based on the job performance, I’m not sure that anybody should be able to win other than us.”
Trump delivered his first speech since leaving the White House over the weekend at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
He used the opportunity to criticize President Joe Biden and his intra-party dissenters within the GOP. Trump vowed to primary Republican detractors who sided with the Democratic Party during their second impeachment effort.
The former president also won the CPAC straw poll, with 55% of respondents saying they would vote for him in a hypothetical 2024 GOP primary.
Even Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, who voted to convict Trump last month, said the former president would win the GOP primary if he did decide to run again.
While “a lot can happen between now and 2024 … I’m pretty sure he will win the nomination,” Romney said.
“I look at the polls and the polls show that, among the names being floated as potential contenders in 2024, if you put President Trump in there among Republicans he wins in a landslide,” he explained.
Trump has not yet said what his 2024 plans are, but he did hint that another political run could be in his future.
“With your help, we will take back the House, we will win the Senate and then a Republican president will make a triumphant return to the White House. I wonder who will that be?” he said at CPAC. “Who, who, who will that be, I wonder … Who knows, I may even decide to beat them for a third time.”
