Michael Avenatti says he'd run against Trump in 2020 to keep the U.S. from being 'destroyed'

Michael Avenatti.
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Could there one day be a President Avenatti in the White House?

As the lawyer representing Stormy Daniels in her defamation case against President Trump and Trump's former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, Michael Avenatti is already Trump's foe, and he suggested on Wednesday that he wouldn't mind becoming his political rival, too. "IF (big) he seeks re-election, I will run, but only if I think there is no other candidate in the race that has a REAL chance at beating him," he tweeted in response to a person asking if he'd run. "We can't relive 2016. I love this country, our values, and our people too much to sit by while they are destroyed."

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.