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.
And, as equally expected, he didn’t stop there.
Perhaps the funniest part of this whole development with President Biden is the fact that he and h is team waited until after the Republican National Convention — the party’s and Trump’s biggest campaigning week of the year — to announce that Biden was dropping out of the race. This means that Donald and his people just spent a week campaigning and railing against someone Trump won’t even be running against now.
Whether or not that was on purpose, on Biden’s part, we’ll never really know. But it’s hilarious, all the same, and it’s obviously getting under Donald’s skin in the worst kind of way — as Trump is now demanding that the Republican Party be “reimbursed” for “fraud” after all that time and money was spent campaigning against a guy who’s no longer even in the race.
In a fuming Truth Social post, Trump accused the Democratic Party of “fraud” on voters and demanded that the GOP be “reimbursed” for campaigning against Biden:
So, we are forced to spend time and money on fighting Crooked Joe Biden, he polls badly after having a terrible debate, and quits the race. Now we have to start all over again. Shouldn’t the Republican Party be reimbursed for fraud in that everybody around Joe, including his doctors and the Fake News Media, knew he was not capable of running for, or being, President? Just askin’?”
Who’s gonna tell him that’s not how any of this works?
Featured image via Flickr/Gage Skidmore, under Creative Commons license 2.0
