Trump Will Run For President In 2024, Still Leads GOP: Top Republicans

A former Trump administration official said he believes Donald Trump will run for the presidency again in the 2024 election.

Sean Spicer, Trump’s former press secretary, said that the ex-president has indicated his interest in making another bid for the presidency after watching current President Joe Biden’s response to a variety of issues, including immigration.

“He’s in,” Spicer told the Washington Examiner in an interview for his upcoming book, “Radical Nation: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s Dangerous Plan for America.”

The former press secretary, however, added that Trump may be less interested to run in 2024 if the GOP secures the House and Senate in 2022. “There needs to be something that will keep him out,” Spicer added.

The Examiner has not explicitly stated whether Spicer is giving his opinion or whether he has spoken to the former president or a person with knowledge of Trump’s 2024 plans.

Spicer’s remarks come after RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said Trump “still leads the party” during a Sunday interview with John Catsimatidis on "The Cats Roundtable."

“You know, I always say go back to the voter, and I think when you see the [number] of people that show up to the rallies for President Trump and this $102 million fundraising haul, I think the voters in America — Republicans in America — would absolutely say the president's the most popular Republican and still leads the party,” McDaniel said, as reported by The Hill.

While Trump is yet to formally announce his 2024 bid for the presidency, he has helped the Republican party raise millions of dollars for the 2022 midterms elections.

Both Spicer and McDaniel’s comments come after a Quinnipiac University poll released Aug. 4 found that six in 10 Americans believe that Trump running for the presidency again in 2024 would be bad for the country.

The results are split between party lines. Among Republicans, 73% said a Trump bid would be good for the country. Among Democrats, 95% said it would be bad. Among Independent voters, 60% said they believe Trump should not run again.

Overall, 49% of Americans believe the former president will run again, with 39% saying he wouldn’t.