Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) predicted that former President Donald Trump could win back the White House in 2024 over President Joe Biden if he sticks to an optimistic message for his campaign.

While speaking at the DealBook Summit, McCarthy said that Trump would lose to Biden in a matchup between the two next fall if he makes the entire campaign about "revenge" rather than a message of hope, per the Hill.

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“But this is a bigger question for Trump: If his campaign is about renew, rebuild, and restore, he’ll win. If it’s about revenge, he’ll lose,” McCarthy told New York Times reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin at the event. “The only person that’s going to determine that is — not his campaign ad — is him.”

McCarthy also predicted that if Biden won the Democratic nomination and Trump won the Republican nomination, the former president would win over the incumbent, and the GOP would "have a very big night." When pressed on his previous criticisms of Trump, McCarthy said that Trump would be better than the current commander in chief.

“I didn’t say he would be a great president,” McCarthy said. “I said he’d be a better president than what we’re having. I said the country would be in a better place.”

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Trump is currently the front-runner in the Republican presidential primary, while Biden is widely expected to be the Democratic nominee, with no major challengers threatening the nomination.

In recent polls, Trump has shown leads against Biden nationally and in several key swing states, which will be vital to victory in 2024. The RealClearPolitics polling average shows Trump leading Biden nationally by 1.9%, with less than 12 months until the general election.