Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, who joined the Fox News team Tuesday, said her former boss has the potential to make a return to the Oval Office in a few years.
Former President Donald Trump can make a comeback, whether it’s himself or others pushing his agenda, McEnany said.
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“I think he can do it again,” McEnany said on Fox News when asked if Trump could become president for the second time. “It’s up to him whether to run in 2024. There are some incredible men and women in our party who are walking in the same kind of Trump ideology. Gov. Ron DeSantis, amazing. Kristi Noem, Vice President Pence.”
McEnany dismissed rumors of Trump wanting to start his own party, a claim the former president himself debunked as “fake news” during his speech at the Conservative Political Action Committee conference Sunday.
Instead, McEnany said those who supported Trump’s agenda must “fix” the Republican Party and prevent it from moving back to its establishment roots.
“It was fixed in 2015, 2016 and made more inclusive [by] speaking to those Rust Belt Democrats who came to the Republican Party, broadening the party,” McEnany said. “I do think he fixed it by giving us a strong focus on trade and protecting blue collar workers. There is a push to go back to the status quo, there’s a push to exile him, to exile his movement.”
Trump called out a number of GOP lawmakers by name, whom he said were in the way of his “America First” agenda and distanced themselves from him during his presidency.
Trump also gave credit to Democrats for being able to stick together as a party with a kind of unity he said the Republican Party needs to work on.
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“You don’t have Mitt Romneys in the group. They always stick together,” Trump said.
While the former president has not announced his intention to run again, he hinted at the idea of making a political comeback and repeated claims that he was the true victor of the 2020 election over President Biden.
