{"id":597226,"date":"2021-07-19T16:50:22","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T20:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=597226"},"modified":"2021-07-19T16:50:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T20:50:32","slug":"trump-says-the-most-popular-presidents-in-american-history-would-have-a-very-hard-time-beating-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-the-most-popular-presidents-in-american-history-would-have-a-very-hard-time-beating-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Says The Most Popular Presidents In American History Would Have A \u2018Very Hard\u2019 Time Beating Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-says-the-most-popular-presidents-in-american-history-would-have-a-very-hard-time-beating-him%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=597226&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A presidential ticket consisting of a resurrected George Washington and Abraham Lincoln would have found it \u201cvery hard\u201d to defeat former President Trump in his first three years in office, Trump said in an interview published Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it would be hard if George Washington came back from the dead and he chose Abraham Lincoln as his vice president, I think it would have been very hard for them to beat me,\u201d Trump said in the Vanity Fair <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2021\/07\/the-feverish-mind-of-trump-after-leaving-the-white-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Both Washington and Lincoln are usually considered to be the most popular presidents in history, with the pair placing second and first, respectively, on C-SPAN\u2019s 2021 Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership, on which Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/30\/trump-among-worst-presidents-cspan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">placed<\/a> 41st.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7240095\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"37\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7240095\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7240095 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-632123434-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"TOPSHOT-US-POLITICS-TRUMP-INAUGURATION-CONCERT\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-632123434-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-632123434-178x120.jpg 178w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-632123434-620x418-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-632123434-768x518-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-632123434-1536x1035-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-632123434-2048x1380-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7240095\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US President-elect Donald Trump and wife Melania look at the Abraham Lincoln statue as they arrive for a welcome celebration at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, on January 19, 2017. (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trump claimed he was unbeatable before the pandemic, due to an impressive economy. \u201cIn a certain way, I had two presidencies,\u201d he said, speaking to how COVID-19 hurt his reelection. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/15\/donald-trump-joe-biden-response-cuba-protests-communism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018I Fought For Cuba, They Didn\u2019t\u2019: Trump Says Biden Admin\u2019s Response To Cuba Is An \u2018Insult To Every Cuban Patriot Who Has Suffered\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we did a great job on COVID and it hasn\u2019t been recognized,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThe cupboards were bare. We didn\u2019t have gowns. We didn\u2019t have masks. We didn\u2019t have ventilators. We didn\u2019t have anything\u2026We brought in plane loads. We did a great job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had two jobs: running our country, and running it well, and survival,\u201d Trump added. \u201cI had the Mueller hoax. I had the witch hunt. It\u2019s one big witch hunt that\u2019s gone from the day I came down the escalator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump also took the opportunity to call <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/19\/donald-trump-mitch-mcconnell-senate-filibuster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mitch McConnell<\/a> a \u201cstupid person\u201d for not ending the filibuster to push through conservative legislation. \u201cHe was a knucklehead and he didn\u2019t do it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The former president weighed in on whether he will launch <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/30\/donald-trump-2024-sean-hannity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">another campaign<\/a> for the White House in 2024. \u201cI\u2019ll be making a decision at some point. I will say this: Based on the polls, those polls are great, the Republican Party loves Trump. Ninety-seven percent!\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A presidential ticket consisting of a resurrected George Washington and Abraham Lincoln would have found it \u201cvery hard\u201d to defeat former President Trump in his first three years in office, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}