Yesterday afternoon, Joe Biden released the statement that we’ve all known was coming in the backs of our minds for weeks now — the 46th sitting President will not seek reelection this year.
President Biden has faced growing demands in recent weeks to step down and withdraw from the 2024 election, where he was slated to once again go head-to-head with now-former President Donald Trump. Calls increased exponentially following his troubling debate performance, resulting in high-level figures within the Democratic party, including the likes of former Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, pressuring the president to step aside.
Biden remained publicly defiant, consistently insisting that he would not leave the race as recently as yesterday, despite multiple leaks from inside his camp indicating otherwise. In public, the president continued to blame a small circle of “elites” who wanted to see him gone for the incessant reporting that indicated he was soon to step down.
Following his formal letter to the American people, Biden quickly followed up with an additional post, in which he officially threw his endorsement behind his current Vice President Kamala Harris, to replace him as the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee.
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As expected, Donald Trump wasted no time in releasing a vile, nasty statement in response to Biden’s decision to drop out of the race.
However, for as foul as he was in his Truth Social post, it seems the felony-convicted former President and 2024 Republican presidential nominee’s fear about going head-to-head with Harris is already beginning to show.
Almost immediately following the news that not only has Biden dropped out, but Harris is slated to take his place, Trump took to his Truth Social account to all but demand to change the terms of the next debate, now that he won’t be going toe-to-toe with Biden again, but instead, someone much younger and full of life and strength than he could ever dream of being.
“My debate with Crooked Joe Biden, the Worst President in the history of the United States, was slated to be broadcast on Fake News ABC, the home of George Slopadopolus, sometime in September,” Trump fumed in his Truth Social post. “Now that Joe has, not surprisingly, has quit the race, I think the Debate, with whomever the Radical Left Democrats choose, should be held on FoxNews, rather than very biased ABC. Thank you! DJT”
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen responded to Trump’s debate term demand with the same thing we’re all thinking right now: “He’s running scared.”
There it is. Trump is already trying to back out of a debate with Kamala Harris.
He’s running scared. pic.twitter.com/259fgBeFcL
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) July 21, 2024
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