Donald Trump's future is contingent upon the 2024 election, a new report claimed.
During an interview with Dana Bash, reporter Leigh Ann Caldwell elaborated on why Trump, who is 78 years old, must become the president this time.
"The fact that Donald Trump threw out his candidacy is trying to seek revenge against people who have done him wrong. I was talking to a Republican close to Donald Trump yesterday who said on background, 'Look, Trump knows, and people know, that this election is very serious for him. He has to win or he goes to jail,'" Caldwell stated.
It is not the first time that somebody has asserted that Trump, who is a convicted felon, will do everything in his power to avoid being imprisoned, OK! Magazine reported.
"I say America's winning; we're the most powerful nation in the world, the most respected nation in the world … Trump says we're losers, but the only loser I know is Donald Trump," President Joe Biden has previously expressed his disapproval of Trump.
Next, he provided a detailed account of Trump's background, mocking his lack of a spotless record.
"C'mon. Folks, look. This is the same guy who has been held liable for $83m for sexual abuse and defamation," he continued, alluding to the lawsuit filed by author E. Jean Carroll against the former president. "Same guy who who is getting rid of Roe v Wade."
"Same guy who has three other cases waiting for him when he loses. And, by the way, 34 felonies," he concluded. "Donald Trump's not running for you, he's running for himself. I think he's running to stay out of jail."
Anthony Scaramucci, a former employee of Trump, thinks that his former employer will go to considerable lengths to avoid being incarcerated, as per The National Enquirer.
"The reason I am not crazy to say this is Trump likes three things — don't ever forget this. He likes money, he likes attention and he likes his personal freedom, meaning he doesn't want to go to jail. He's a big baby, which is why he has all of that hyper-masculinity, bullying, tough-guy intimidation, enemies lists — all the stupid stuff that small-p----- people have, and so he doesn't want to go jail, trust me," Scaramucci informed the audience earlier this summer.
"If he sees himself really dropping in the polls, and there's a way to cut himself a deal to avoid jail, he'll fake an illness, he'll see if he can slot in Ron DeSantis or Nikki Haley into the top of the ticket," according to him. "[J.D.] Vance has been the biggest disaster in vice presidential selection history. It can't get any worse than this guy."
Meanwhile, the results from the Times/Siena survey released on Friday show that among likely voters, Trump and Harris are tied at 48% (margin of error 2.2). According to The Times, this is "not encouraging" for Harris since Democrats have won the popular vote in previous elections despite losing the presidency.
At least three polls conducted last week have shown Trump a slim lead, while six others have seen Harris leading. This poll shows a decrease in support for Harris compared to The Times' earlier poll in early October when she was depicted as having a 49%-46% lead over Trump.
The polls show a shift in favor of Trump since August when Harris was ahead in a Journal survey of registered voters (47% to 45%). A CNBC survey of registered voters issued Thursday (margin of error 3.1) and a Wall Street Journal registered voter poll out Wednesday (margin of error 2.5) show him ahead with 48% to 46% of the vote.
Among likely voters, including those leaning toward one candidate, Trump leads Harris by two points, 51% to 49%, nationally. When excluding so-called leaders, Trump's lead is one point, 49% to 48%, according to a HarrisX/Forbes survey issued on Wednesday (margin of error 2.5).
According to multiple other recent surveys, Harris is leading: Harris leads Trump by 47% to 44% among those who said they "definitely" or "probably" intended to vote for one of the candidates, while 4% picked "other" and 5% picked no candidate, according to a Monmouth University survey of 802 registered voters conducted from October 17th to the 21st and released on Wednesday.
Even though her lead shrank by one point from the groups' prior poll conducted from October 12th to the 15th, Harris still leads by three points, 49% to 46%, in a new poll of likely voters released on Wednesday by The Economist and YouGov (margin of error 3%). The poll asks respondents to choose between "other," "not sure," and "would not vote" when asked about third-party candidates.
The results of Tuesday's Morning Consult poll show that Harris maintains a four-point advantage, 50% to 46%, which is in line with last week's findings but lower than her 51%-45% lead in the two polls conducted before last week.
Furthermore, on Tuesday, a Reuters/Ipsos survey showed that Harris was up by three points, 46% to 43% (or two points when rounding, which is within the poll's margin of error of two points). This is consistent with last week's Reuters/Ipsos poll, which also showed Harris ahead by three points, 45% to 42%.
After Trump has cut the margins since the groups' last poll in August, when Harris was five points ahead, a USA Today/Suffolk University survey of likely voters taken Oct. 14–18 (margin of error 3.1) shows that she is up one point, 45% to 44%.
After posting two-point leads in September and early October and a four-point lead in August, Harris maintained a slim lead over Trump in Friday's poll of likely voters released by Emerson College, with a margin of just one point (49%-48%).
Since declaring her campaign on July 21, Harris has erased Trump's lead over President Joe Biden. However, her lead has declined significantly over the previous two months, reaching a peak of 3.7 points in late August, according to FiveThirtyEight's weighted polling average.
In the upcoming election, FiveThirtyEight predicts that Trump will win with a 51 percent chance, while Harris has a 49 percent chance. Nate Silver, a political analyst, and statistician has lately stated that he has "never seen an election in which the forecast spent more time in the vicinity of 50/50." Yet, he still gives Trump a slim 52.8/46.9 edge.
Business Times has reached out to Donald Trump for comments.
