Trump's Admission On Biden Accidentally Confirms How He Feels About Former Rival (& It's Weird)
Just eight months ago, Former President Donald Trump confidently called President Joe Biden "the destroyer of American democracy," per the Associated Press. Yet, now, it appears that he wishes Biden was still running against him in the 2024 Presidential race. On August 8, second-time presidential hopeful Trump held a press conference from his Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago, and during his speech, he seemed to come to Biden's defense.
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In July, Biden dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed his VP Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee, which clearly caught Trump and his campaign off guard. During the rambling press conference, Trump explained that since Harris never won a primary, it is, in his words, "unconstitutional" for her to be the nominee. From the sound of things, Trump still wants Biden as an opponent. "I hate to be defending him, but he did not want to leave," Trump asserted, per X, formerly known as Twitter. He added, "He wanted to see if he could win. They said 'you're not gonna win' after the debate." Trump then suggested that Biden could've won, which was a bizarre admission from the former president to say the least.
Before Biden withdrew from the race, a survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research showed that eight out of 10 Democrats would be happy with Harris as the nominee, per the Associated Press. This was quite an improvement compared to Biden, who earned that sentiment from only four in 10 Democrats. While Trump and Harris remain neck and neck in the polls, it's clear that there has been quite a surge of excitement among voters since Biden dropped out.
Trump's words about Biden indicate that he's getting worried
During his press conference, Donald Trump was unsurprisingly insistent that he doesn't feel threatened by Kamala Harris and repeatedly implied that he doesn't believe that Joe Biden dropping out negatively affected his chances of winning. "I'm very happy to run against her; I'm not complaining from that standpoint," he assured the crowd. He also called Harris a "very bad debater" and insisted that she "has no votes."
The failure and all-around messiness of Trump's debate against Biden in June wasfairly widely agreed upon, so it's hard to believe that Harris will have a worse debate performance than what we've seen so far during this election season. Despite saying that he is "looking forward" to his debate against Harris on September 10, the subtext of Trump's press conference seems to say otherwise, per CNN.
Whether or not Trump believes that Harris' position as Democratic nominee goes against the constitution, he likely wouldn't harp on the issue if it wasn't in his own best interest. In reality, Trump likely believes that Biden would have been easier to beat than Harris, and as such, he's now planting seeds in the minds of his supporters that suggest that Harris isn't the rightful nominee. Regardless of the reasoning, though, it comes as a surprise to hear Trump saying that Biden should still be the nominee after spending so much energy talking negatively about him.