Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't eligible to run for president, due to being born in Austria. But if he could, he would, the action star tells Chris Wallace in a new interview.
"The Constitution says that the President has to be a natural born U.S. citizen. If not for that, would you have run for president?" Wallace asks Schwarzenegger in an episode of Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace? which debuts Friday.
75-year-old Schwarzenegger responds, "Well, yes, of course."
"I mean, I think the field was wide open in 2016. And I think the field is open right now. I mean, think about it right now. I mean, who is there? There is really not a person that can bring everyone together," he continues. "Who is here today that people say okay, he's not too old or he's not too this or too that, or is that because it's now a question about who do you vote against than who do you vote for."
"You're saying you would run for president in 2024?" Wallace asks, to which Schwarzenegger responds, "Absolutely."
"Put me in because it's it look — it's a no brainer. I see so clearly how I could win that that election."
Schwarzenegger, who stars in the new Netflix series Fubar and in a Netflix documentary about his own life, then compares the 2024 presidential election to the gubernatorial races he won in California in 2003 and 2006.
"I mean, it's like me and California. And when that was, you know, running for governor, it was clear that people are looking for some new answer, not a right wing or left wing, but someone that can bring the nation together," he says.