'Don't See It At All': Trump Says He Will Not Contest 2028 Polls If He Loses Presidential Race In November

The Democratic candidate in this election, Vice-President Kamala Harris, has a lead in surveys over the former president, who was earlier polling ahead of his previous Democratic rival, Joe Biden.

Trump said he had not made any deals with anybody yet for cabinet positions.

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Former US president Donald Trump, 78, has said he will not be running for president in 2028 if he loses the election this year. “No, I think that that will be, that will be it. I don’t see that at all,” Trump told interviewer Sharyl Attkisson on her show 'Full Measure'. “I think that, hopefully, we’re going to be successful,” Trump added in the interview, which aired on Sunday.

According to The Guardian, Vice-President Kamala Harris has a lead in surveys over the former president, who was earlier polling ahead of his previous Democratic rival, Joe Biden. Trump won the 2016 presidential polls but lost his re-election bid in 2020. 

However, the presidential race remains tight ahead of November’s election, especially, in the key battleground states.

Trump was also asked about the positions former Representative Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, tech billionaire Elon Musk and former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr would be appointed to if he were to win a second term in office. As per The Guardian, Trump said he had not made any deals with anybody yet, because “it’s not appropriate to do it” and “it’s too early”. 

As per The Guardian, he said he had ideas that the former Democrats could work on. Trump said that “Bobby will do great on health and on the environment”. Trump said Kennedy would look at other countries where they don’t use chemicals, or much less than the US, “and the people are healthier than they are in the United States, which is not that healthy a country".

Meanwhile, the former president described Gabbard, a military veteran and retired Congresswoman, as “a common sense person”. She recently said she would “be honoured to serve” under a second Trump administration, according to The Guardian. She threw her hat in the ring for the 2020 presidential polls as a Democrat, but has chose to support the Republican nominee in this year’s elections.

During a Fox News interview, Gabbard said she was aiming for a role working on foreign policy.

“I’ve known her a little bit, and it was a great honour when we got her,” Trump said in Sunday’s interview.

Meanwhile, Trump praised Musk as a person who can advance policies to cut cost in the federal goverment, an idea he has raised along with a “government efficiency commission”.

“Elon is Elon,” he said. “He’s a big cost-cutter. He’s always been very good at it, and I’m good at it. But Elon, I’ll tell you what, he will go in, and he’ll say: This is what you have to do. You have to do this. He is so into that, he feels there’s so much waste and fat in this country, and he’s right.”