Former President Donald Trump said Sunday that Vice President Kamala Harris would be an easier candidate to beat in November’s presidential election than President Joe Biden, after Biden withdrew from the running as the Democratic Party’s de facto nominee.
Biden endorsed Harris as his successor about 30 minutes after announcing on Sunday that he would not run for reelection.
It’s unclear whether Harris will win the nomination; her national approval rating is 36 percent, according to FiveThirtyEight.
CNN’s Kaitlan Collins report Here’s what Trump said to his network after Biden left office:
“He’s the worst president in the history of our country. He’s going to be remembered as, by far, the worst president in the history of our country,” former President Trump said in a phone interview with CNN minutes after Biden announced he was dropping out of the 2024 presidential race. It’s unclear who the Democratic nominee will be, but Trump said he thinks Vice President Harris would be easier to beat than Biden.
Statement from the 45th and soon to be 47th President of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump: pic.twitter.com/ttFcF52ZCS
— Alex Bruesewitz 🇺🇸 (@alexbruesewitz) July 21, 2024
Donald Trump Jr. Hit Harris is “even more liberal and incompetent than Joe.”
Kamala Harris owns all of Joe Biden’s left wing policy track record. The only difference is that she is even more liberal and less competent than Joe. This is truly amazing. She put us in charge of border control and we have witnessed the worst illegal immigration invasion in history!!!
“He’s a con man. He’s a crook. He’s a bad guy,” Trump said. “But throughout his life, he’s been able to convince people that he’s actually a good guy. I laugh when people say, ‘Trump is evil and he’s a good guy.’ That’s the only thing he’s been able to do. You look at his record. If you compare him now to what he was 15 or 20 years ago, he’s a different type of guy. He can’t talk. He can’t string two sentences together. So I think: I can’t believe he’s going to be the nominee. I hope he is. But I can’t believe he’s going to be the nominee.”
Potential candidates to replace Biden in the 2024 presidential election include Harris, two-time lost presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.), Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-Ill.) and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-Mich.).
The Amandi poll, conducted by Bendixen & Amandi, found Harris leading Trump by one point (42 to 41 percent), and Clinton leading Trump by two points (43 to 41 percent).
The poll showed Newsom trailing Trump by three points (37-40 percent), while Whitmer trailed by four points (36-40 percent).
Wendell Fsebo is a political reporter for Breitbart News and a former war room analyst for the Republican National Committee. He is the author of: The Politics of Slave MoralityFollow Wendell “Bat” @WendellHusebø or The truth of society @WendellHusebo.
