As Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris gains in the polls, Donald Trump on Thursday said he would rather face her than President Joe Biden.
“We have somebody that hasn't received one vote for president, and she's running, and that's fine with me,” Trump said during a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate. “But we were given Joe Biden, and now we're given somebody else. And I think, frankly, I'd rather be running against the somebody else.”
Despite saying this, Trump in his news conference lamented the Democratic Party effectively forcing out Biden from the 2024 presidential race, arguing the party’s actions were unconstitutional and set a bad precedent for future presidents. And Trump recently pushed the conspiracy theory that Biden will try to reclaim the nomination, even though there is no evidence of that and Biden has no legal mechanism to wrest the nomination from his vice president.
“I HEAR THERE IS A BIG MOVEMENT TO ‘BRING BACK CROOKED JOE,’” Trump said in a Truth Social post a few hours after Harris selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be her running mate earlier this week. Trump later claimed the current president might “crash” the Democratic National Convention in mid-August to “take back the Nomination.”
“He feels that he made a historically tragic mistake by handing over the U.S. Presidency, a COUP, to the people in the World he most hates, and he wants it back, NOW!!!” Trump said on his social media platform without any evidence.
