he lost because people didn't respect him and because he mishandled the pandemic badly. both of those things are still having impacts, and with the insurrection on top of that, i don't see how he can win.
"If you'd asked me if he'd run again in December, I would have said definitely not because he had just been humiliated and wouldn't put himself in that position again," she said. "But things have changed."; Mary Trump told Insider that her uncle's recent behavior is indicative of someone trying to rehabilitate their reputation in time for a presidential race. "He's still spreading his 'Big Lie,'" she said. This refers to a phrase used to describe Republican misinformation about the 2020 election.
"He's also now spreading the second big lie," she continued. "This is that the insurrection of January 6 wasn't a big deal."; "If the Republicans in any given state can make it harder or impossible for certain kinds of people to vote, like people of color or college students, then Donald might realize that if he ran again, he couldn't lose because the system would have been rigged to favor him," Mary Trump said.
She added that her uncle is unlikely to participate in a race he doesn't think he'd be able to win. "He's a coward and he'll never engage in a fair fight," she said. "He'll only engage if he's convinced that through cheating, lying, and stealing that he can win."
