Global Courant 2023-05-30 12:08:10
Mike Mulvaney thinks Donald Trump will be the GOP nominee in the 2024 presidential election.
But in an interview with Sky News Australia on Tuesday, Trump’s former acting chief of staff in the White House predicted that Trump will lose the general election itself.
“The Republican primaries are about Donald Trump and he will probably win,” Mulvaney predicted. “And then the general election will be about Donald Trump and he will probably lose.”
Mulvaney described Trump as an “turnout machine”, noting how he gets people to vote both for and against him. The race “will be about him, ‘Do you love him or hate him?'” Mulvaney continued. “That’s pretty much a repeat of 2020.”
Mulvaney served as acting White House chief of staff from January 2019 to March 2020, during which time he admitted that Trump attempted quid pro quo with Ukraine.
He also served as director of the Office of Management and Budget and special envoy to Northern Ireland, and resigned from the Trump administration following the deadly uprising at the Capitol.
Mulvaney has since become critical of his former boss and the feeling seems to be mutual. Trump has described Mulvaney as “perhaps the dumbest person, along with John Bolton, who works in the White House”, calling him “uncharismatic” and “a born loser”.
Watch the interview here:
