Former Attorney General Bill Barr suggested Monday he would vote for Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election if he wins the Republican nomination — despite saying that the GOP should move on from the former president.
“I certainly have made it clear, I don’t think he should be our nominee and I’m going to, you know, support somebody else for the nomination,” Barr told NBC “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie ahead of the Tuesday release of his new book “One Damn Thing After Another.”
However, Barr hedged when Guthrie pressed him about whether he would vote for a Democrat over Trump in a hypothetical general election.
“Because I believe that the greatest threat to the country is the progressive agenda being pushed by the Democratic Party, it’s inconceivable to me that I wouldn’t vote for the Republican nominee,” Barr responded.
In the book, Barr writes that Trump’s actions before and during last year’s Capitol riot threatened democracy and spells out his belief that the 45th president lied in making claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election.
“It’s hard to project what the facts are going to turn out to be three years hence,” added Barr, who served as attorney general from February 2019 to December 2020. “But as of now, it’s hard for me to conceive that I wouldn’t vote for the Republican nominee.”
Trump hasn’t officially thrown his hat in the ring for 2024, but has hinted that he would seek the nomination again.
“We did it twice, and we will do it again. We’re going to be doing it again a third time,” he told an audience last month at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando.
Trump also easily won a straw poll of likely 2024 Republican candidates conducted at the same event.