Donald Trump says he may run for president in 2024 if Meghan Markle does

Speaking to Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Tuesday night, the previous President was asked to discuss reports in current days that the Duchess of Sussex had actually been connecting with Democrat operatives for a possible run for the White House.

According to UK’s Mail on Sunday, the 39-year-old has aspirations to end up being the very first female president, and hopes her and Prince Harry’s bombshell tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey will enhance her assistance in the United States.

“Well I hope that happens, because if that happened then I’d be – I think I’d have an even stronger feeling toward running,” Mr Trump informed Bartiromo.

“I’m not a fan of hers, I think that what she talks about the royal family and the Queen – I happen to think, I know the Queen, as you know I’ve met with the Queen, and I think the Queen is a tremendous person and I am not a fan of Meghan.”

His remarks echo a comparable action he offered to press reporters in September last year, when inquired about Ms Markle successfully motivating individuals to elect Joe Biden.

“I’m not a fan of hers,” he stated at the time. “And I would say this – and she probably has heard that – but I wish a lot of luck to Harry, because he’s going to need it.”

Earlier in the interview on Tuesday night, Mr Trump had actually declined to dedicate to a 2024 run. “Based on every poll they want me to run again, but we’re going to take a look and we’ll see,” he stated.

“First steps first, we have to see what we can do with the House (in 2022). I think we have a very good chance of taking back the House, we did a great job (in 2020) … we ended up winning 15 seats instead of losing potentially 25 seats, and it almost cost Nancy Pelosi her job. I think we have a chance to do better in the Senate, we need leadership in the Senate, which frankly we don’t have. We have a chance of taking back the Senate, and frankly we’ll make our decision after that.”

But Mr Trump cautioned that Republicans “will have a very hard time getting elected” ever once again if Democrats’ sweeping voting reform bill— which would greatly broaden mail-in ballot and provide the federal government more state over how states run their elections– ends up being law.

The costs, which the Associated Press noted “touches on virtually every aspect of the electoral process”, passed the House previously this month on an almost party-line 220-210 vote.

“If it’s allowed to happen I think Republicans will have a very hard time getting elected,” Mr Trump stated. “They will be able to do what they did in the 2020 election and potentially even worse. They have to stop that bill.”

Asked if there were any frontrunners behind him he would favour if he chose not to run, Mr Trump decreased to call names.

According to a straw survey carried out at last month’s Conservative Political Action Conference, the most popular runners-up behind Mr Trump himself are Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, followed by South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem– both of whom have earned praise from Republicans however criticism from Democrats for their resistance to hard COVID-19 constraints in their states.

“I like a lot of them and a lot of them I’ve been responsible for,” Mr Trump informedBartiromo “I’ve endorsed people that won, I’ve endorsed people that didn’t have a chance and they went up by many, many points and they won. It seems the endorsements carry a lot of weight and that’s good.”

The 74-year-old talked about the coronavirus vaccine, promoting his administration’s success with Operation Warp Speed.

He motivated his fans to get the vaccine– something required by the nation’s leading contagious illness specialist Dr Anthony Fauci on Sunday— even while acknowledging a lot of them might be reluctant.

Mr Trump and spouse Melania both got the Pfizer vaccine prior to leaving the White House in January, it was reported earlier this month.

Dr Fauci had actually been reacting to a brand-new survey that discovered around half of United States males who determined as Republican stated they had no strategy to get the vaccine.

“I would, I would recommend it,” Mr Trump stated, after Bartiromo raised the concern.

“And I would recommend it to a lot of people that don’t want to get it and a lot of those people voted for me frankly, but again we have our freedoms and we have to live with that and I agree with that also, but it’s a safe vaccine and something that works.”

During the extensive interview, Mr Trump likewise knocked President Biden’s turnaround of his migration policies, stating the brand-new administration had actually developed a crisis on the southern border with Mexico.

“They’re destroying our country, people are coming in by the hundreds of thousands, young children are coming in … frankly our country can’t handle it,” he stated.

“It’s a crisis like we’ve never seen. It’s going to get much, much worse.”

He likewise cautioned that the Biden administration’s energy policies, that included the cancellation of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada, were currently injuring American customers at the fuel pump.

“We were energy independent, very shortly we will no longer be energy independent, gas prices are going up,” he stated.

“They’ll be going up by $1, $2, $3 – if you look at that, that’s bigger than a tax increase. To the consumer, you get a dollar increase in gasoline, that’s bigger than a tax hike, so it’s a terrible thing that’s happening.”

Mr Trump forecasted that the Democrats would quickly be generating “the biggest tax increase in the history of our country to pay for everything”.

He likewise discussed Monday’s retraction by The Washington Post of a January story that had actually utilized incorrect quotes credited to Mr Trump throughout a telephone call with Georgia’s leading elections private investigator.

The paper was required to confess had actually exaggerated Mr Trump, based upon details offered by a confidential source, after a recording of the call was released by The Wall Street Journal recently.

“It made me sound bad,” Mr Trump stated.

“When I heard it I said, ‘That’s ridiculous, I never said that.’ When you hear the tape you may say, ‘Donald Trump may be the most honest person.’ It was a beautiful and perfect statement.”

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