Vice President Kamala Harris will be an easier candidate to defeat in November than President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump said Sunday after Biden dropped out as the Democrat’s de facto nominee.
Biden endorsed Harris as his replacement about 30 minutes after announcing that he would not run for reelection on Sunday.
It is unclear if Harris can win the nomination. She holds a 36 percent approval rating nationwide, according to FiveThirtyEight.
CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reported Trump’s remarks with her network after Biden stepped aside:
In a phone call with CNN minutes after Biden announced his exit from the 2024 race, former President Trump responded, “He is the worst president in the history of our country. He goes down as the single worst president by far in the history of our country.” While it’s unclear who the Democratic nominee will be, Trump said he thinks VP Harris will be easier to defeat than Biden would have been.
Statement from the 45th & soon to be 47th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump: pic.twitter.com/ttFcF52ZCS
— Alex Bruesewitz 🇺🇸 (@alexbruesewitz) July 21, 2024
Donald Trump Jr. slammed Harris as “even more liberal and less competent than Joe”:
Kamala Harris owns the entire leftwing policy record of Joe Biden. The only difference is that she is even more liberal and less competent than Joe, which is really saying something. She was put in charge of the border and we saw the worst invasion of illegals in our history!!!In December, Trump told Breitbart News that neither Biden nor Harris would not be the nominee.
Potential candidates to replace Biden atop the 2024 ticket include Harris, two-time failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), J. B. Pritzker (D-IL), and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI).Former pollster for President Barack Obama, Fernand Amandi, published an internal survey on July 9 that pushed Harris and Clinton as better candidates Biden.Amandi’s poll, conducted by Bendixen & Amandi, found Harris led Trump by one point (42-41 percent). Moreover, Clinton led Trump by two points (43-41 percent).Newsom trailed Trump by three points (37-40 percent), the poll found, while Whitmer was four points behind (36-40 percent).“He’s a cheater. He’s a scoundrel. He’s a bad guy,” Trump said. “But in his life, he’s always been able to convince people he’s this really nice guy. I laugh when they say, ‘Trump is the evil one, and he’s the nice one.’ That’s the one thing he’s been able to do. All you have to do is look at his credentials. When you compare him today to 15 or 20 years ago, he’s a different kind of a guy. The guy can’t talk. The guy can’t put two sentences together. So I do think this: I cannot believe he’s going to be the nominee. I hope he is. But I can’t believe he’s going to be the nominee.”
Wendell Husebo is a political reporter with Breitbart News and a former RNC War Room Analyst. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality. Follow Wendell on “X” @WendellHusebø or on Truth Social @WendellHusebo.
