Donald Trump says he'd beat George Washington and Abraham Lincoln if he ever ran against them in an election.
Per The Guardian, the former President of the United States made these speculations in a recent interview with Washington Post journalists Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig.
Rucker and Leonnig were conducting research for their upcoming book on the Trump administration, entitled: I Alone Can Fix It.
According to the above publication, Trump reportedly said:
"I think it would be hard if George Washington came back from the dead and he chose Abraham Lincoln as his vice-president. I think it would have been very hard for them to beat me."
Trump's comments on his perceived inherent electability seem to corroborate his hints that he intends to attempt to run for office again and win a second term in 2024 - although no official announcement has yet taken place.
The 75-year-old ex-POTUS hinted that he had ambitions to re-enter politics in an attempt to win a second term in a recent interview with Fox News anchor Sean Hannity.
When asked about the possibility of running for office again, Trump claimed that it would be important to first endorse the right supporters in Congress, stating:
"I've got tremendous numbers ... there is more popularity [for me] now than there was the day before the election. Because they see how bad things are at the border."
He continued: "They see what is going on, they see that their guns are gonna be gone ... their taxes are going up. Regulations are going through the roof. Job [losses] are going to go up.
"So I say this: I am looking at it very seriously. Beyond seriously. From a legal standpoint, I don’t want to really talk about it yet. It's a little too soon."
And in a speech made a speech at the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference in Florida, Trump again alluded to his future ambitions, telling a crowd of his supporters: "With your help, we will take back the House, we will win the Senate, and then a Republican president will make a triumphant return to the White House – and I wonder who that will be?"
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