Sen. Lindsey Graham will urge President Trump to run for president in 2024 should he ultimately lose to Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
Graham, one of the president’s biggest Republican supporters who has said the election isn’t over, told Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade that he believes Trump should seek another term in office if this bid fails.
Graham said that if none of the Trump campaign or GOP legal challenges are enough to win him the election, which has been projected in Biden’s favor, he’ll tell the president “not to let this movement die, to consider running again, to create an organization, platforms over the next four years to keep his movement alive.”
“I would encourage him to think about doing it, I really would,” he said before referencing President Grover Cleveland, who, during the late 1800s, served one term as president, lost his reelection bid, and then successfully ran four years later. In the 1888 election, Cleveland, the incumbent, lost to Republican candidate Benjamin Harrison despite winning the popular vote.
Graham has previously urged Trump not to concede the race to Biden, calling on him to “fight hard.” He also recently donated $500,000 to the president’s reelection legal fund. Graham reiterated the stance that the president shouldn’t give up in the Kilmeade interview.
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A number of media outlets, including the Associated Press, CNN, the New York Times, and Fox News, projected Pennsylvania, and the state’s vital 20 Electoral College votes, to go to Biden on Saturday. In doing so, the outlets also declared him the apparent president-elect since the Electoral College votes put him above the necessary 270 vote threshold to become president.
Despite that, Biden’s acceptance speech, and the formation of a transition team, Trump has not conceded, and his campaign is seeking recounts and legal remedies in the hope of winning four more years in the White House. The campaign claims, without verifiable evidence, that there has been widespread voter fraud or compromises to the voting system in states projected to Biden, including Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Georgia.
