Former Vice President Al Gore claimed he respects supporters of former President Donald Trump’s, and that it’s important for everyone to do so during “this campaign season.”

Gore joined CNN’s Christiane Amanpour for an interview on Saturday where he discussed the possibility of President Joe Biden facing Trump again in the 2024 general election.

He noted that Biden has a lot of advantages as a candidate especially as Wall Street hits record highs and unemployment continues to fall.

In a potential matchup, Gore believes Democrats need to “maintain respect” for Trump’s supporters, whom he says are “using” the ex-president as a way to express their anger. Gore added that Democrats must paint Biden’s economy as successful in order to convince those voters to support Biden instead.

AMANPOUR: There’s a lot of narrative in the air about, you know, about about about Biden and a lot of sort of almost premature fatalism about a Trump victory. What should they be saying to counter, really, Trump, which is who is a bigger master of the public information space and the information wars?

GORE: Well, Trump’s mastery has been in doubt in the last couple of weeks with confusing, Nancy Pelosi with Nikki Haley and can confusing other things. And I think, you know, I don’t want to get into talking about him.

I respect his supporters. And I think it’s really important in this campaign season for people to maintain respect for his supporters. Many of them, are using Trump as a vehicle to express their anger at how they, don’t think things have been going in the right direction.

But to answer your question, Christiane, I think that more and more people are just now beginning to wake up to the fact that things are beginning to go in the right direction. Inflation has come down dramatically. Now the political influence is still there.

But, ten months from now, if the trend continues, inflation may not be an issue. Employment is at all time record high levels. The unemployment has been at record lows. Inequality is being reduced. And the wages are going up faster in the lowest income brackets.

That’s something many of us have wanted and worked for for a long time.

According to Real Clear Politics, Trump maintains a slight lead over Biden by 1.8%, well within the margin of error heading towards November.

Watch the clip above via CNN.

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