Incumbent President Donald Trump is thinking about kicking off his 2024 election campaign on the day of president-elect Joe Biden's oath-taking -- evaluating how to keep the attention on him when he exits the White House, The Independent reported.
Trump has not conceded defeat yet and, according to some of his close advisers, he may never concede. At one instance, Trump appeared to accept the results and acknowledge Biden's win, but he quickly retracted, saying, "I concede NOTHING."
But that doesn't mean Trump is not strategizing his next moves, which includes launching an event on the day of Biden's inauguration.
The conversations swirl around launching a campaign for president again in four years after Biden's first term will have neared an end. The move would "unprecedented," University of Richmond law professor Carl Tobias said.
"No one who has lost in a Presidential election has ever announced an intent to run four years later on the day that the victor is sworn in," Business Insider quoted Tobias as saying in an emailed statement.
Two sources with knowledge of the matter disclosed that Trump has bragged in private that he would remain in the spotlight, even if Biden is in the White House -- because the media finds Biden "boring."
What was once just mere speculations appear to be becoming more public as Bloomberg on Thursday reported that Trump told State Secretary Michael Pompeo, National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien, and Vice President Mike Pence about his election campaign plans for 2024.
Trump and some of his closest associates "have already started surveying prominent donors to get a sense of who would be with him -- or perhaps against him," Daily Beast White House reporter Asawin Suebsaeng reported.
People close to Trump have tried to keep alive the distorted concept that the administration will remain in power for another full term. His daughter Ivanka and wife Melania have urged him to accept the results.
Trump and his deputies have lost virtually all of their court battles to the polls' outcome in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Georgia's major battleground states.
Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris dismissed a question about the possibility of Trump launching a campaign again in 2024 in the wake of reports that talks about such a campaign are becoming more serious. Harris broke out into laughter, a video tweeted by CNN's Jasmine Wright showed.
Biden beat Trump by more than 80 million votes in the presidential election and currently leads the incumbent by over 6 million votes.
