Trump: Washington/Lincoln ticket would have had hard time beating me before pandemic – By Mychael Schnell (The Hill) / July 19 2021
Former President Trump said it would have been hard for a presidential ticket with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln running to beat him before the COVID-19 pandemic began.
“I 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,” Trump told The Washington Post’s Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker during an interview for their book “I Alone Can Fix It,” which is set to be released on Tuesday.
Vanity Fair published an excerpt of the book on Monday.
Trump’s hypothetical prediction, however, starkly contrasts with historians’ outlook on the list of former presidents. C-SPAN’s 2021 Presidential Historians Survey ranked Presidents Lincoln and Washington in the top two spots, respectively.
Trump ranked 41st out of 44 in the 2021 survey.
