Signals have been pouring out of former President Donald Trump’s Bedminster, New Jersey, resort that he’s heading in the direction of another run for the presidency.
It was sparked by reports from former chief of staff Mark Meadows that Trump was meeting with his 2024 “Cabinet” to judge the field he might face.
And now, his former press secretary and adviser, Sean Spicer, is just saying it.
“He’s in,” he said during a preview interview of his upcoming book, Radical Nation: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s Dangerous Plan for America, already an Amazon pre-sale bestseller.
Spicer said that the last few months of bumbles by the Biden White House, especially on Trump issues such as immigration, have encouraged the former president to look beyond the 2022 midterm elections during which he plans to be a “kingmaker.”
What’s more, said Spicer, who hosts Spicer & Co. on Newsmax TV, Trump has banked $102 million, lost weight, and has kept his approval ratings high.
Pollster John McLaughlin added that “the more Biden fails, the better President Trump looks.”
McLaughlin has suggested that 2024 could look like 1980, when Ronald Reagan, who lost his 1976 primary fight, beat a floundering Jimmy Carter. Should he run and win, McLaughlin predicted a Trump 2.0 would be “better, smarter.”
But he added that if Trump helps the GOP win the House and Senate in 2022, there will be less urgency to run again.
Spicer looks at it differently. “A couple months ago I wasn’t sure” of a new Trump bid, he said. “Now,” he added, “there needs to be something that will keep him out.”
