Trump has often made claims dating back to 2011 boasting that he could win the Republican nomination and defeat his Democratic opponent, but he has never actually made a formal bid at a nomination.
Donald Trump continues to make waves that he will enter the 2016 White House race, repeatedly arguing that he is a viable candidate and saying at a recent conservative rally that he is close to 80 percent on running — but no one appears to be buying it.
During the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference, Trump was asked by Fox News host Sean Hannity how certain he was that he would run on a scale of one to 100. Trump responded with, “I would say 75 and 80, I am really inclined,” according to a Palm Beach Post report.
Still, most people are skeptical of his true seriousness, as Trump has repeatedly teased the idea of him running and claimed that he could defeat a Democratic opponent, but has never actually stepped into the ring. He has made such claims as far back as 2011, even using the same wording, according to the Post: he said then he was “more serious than ever” at going for the 2012 nomination, and used the same words in recently in an interview with the Washington Post.
He said NBC had approached him about renewing The Apprentice, but he told them he is “doing something else, it’s very important to me,” he said at CPAC according to the report.
Although delaying The Apprentice seems to suggest he is serious about a bid, he said the same thing in 2011. Ultimately, he never did anything more than talk during the campaign, never even coming close to entering the race, and the GOP nomination was eventually taken by Mitt Romney.
Trump acknowledged in an interview in 2011 with Fox News that the reason he doesn’t get much support in the poll is because people think he’s just promoting “Celebrity Apprentice,” which he claims he’s not. However, he hasn’t done much to refute those claims with his failure to make any formal attempt whatsoever to run in the last four years.
However, he has done some things he hasn’t done before, such as hire a senior political adviser who could oversee a campaign in New Hampshire, as well as another one for Iowa, choosing Chuck Laudner, who was Rick Santorum’s adviser in that state.
Most people don’t think Trump has much of a chance to win, despite his rhetoric. He is seen as a polarizing and even fringe figure in the Republican Party, and his campaign alleging that President Obama’s birth certificate is probably a fake did him know favors.
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