Trump latest news: Trump says Biden has been ‘worst president’ in US history as Vance calls for full resignation

JD Vance wants Biden to go beyond just dropping out of the 2024 presidential election.

The Republican VP nominee said on Sunday if the Democratic president was out of the campaign, he should resign from the White House as well.

“If Joe Biden ends his reelection campaign, how can he justify remaining President?” Vance wrote on X. “Not running for reelection would be a clear admission that President Trump was right all along about Biden not being mentally fit enough to serve as Commander-in-Chief. There is no middle ground.”

In recent days, Elon Musk has emerged as one of the most influential voices throwing support behind the Trump 2024 campaign.

Following the announcement that Biden was withdrawing from the presidential election, Musk reacted with amusement, posting a crying laughing emoji in response to a satirical news article that Jill Biden was dropping out of the presidential race.

Musk later elaborated with a more sincere appraisal of the race, claiming in a post on X, “My smartest friends, including those living in the San Francisco Bay Area who have been lifelong Dems, are excited about Trump/Vance.”

“I believe in an America that maximizes individual freedom and merit,” Musk wrote. “That used to be the Democratic Party, but now the pendulum has swung to the Republican Party.”

Recent polls have offered mixed predictions about a hypothetical match-up between Harris and Trump.

A YouGov poll in mid-July found her trailing Trump by five points, a larger gap than Biden, in a hypothetical mash-up, while an Ispsos poll showed her tied with the Republican.

The second chapter of the 2024 campaign has officially begun.

With Biden announcing he’ll pull out of the race, the Trump campaign immediately leapt into attack mode on his likely replacement, Vice-President Kamala Harris.

“Kamala Harris owns the entire leftwing policy record of Joe Biden,” Donald Trump Jr wrote on X on Sunday. “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!!!”

Donald Trump has no love lost for his now-former 2024 opponent, Joe Biden, who announced on Sunday he’s withdrawing from the presidential race.

Trump unloaded on the Democrat in a post on Truth Social.

Here are the former president’s full remarks:

Crooked Joe Biden was not fit to run for President, and is certainly not fit to serve – And never was! He only attained the position of President by lies, Fake News, and not leaving his Basement. All those around him, including his Doctor and the Media, knew that he wasn’t capable of being President, and he wasn’t – And now, look what he’s done to our Country, with millions of people coming across our Border, totally unchecked and unvetted, many from prisons, mental institutions, and record numbers of terrorists. We will suffer greatly because of his presidency, but we will remedy the damage he has done very quickly. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

After Joe Biden announced on Sunday he will bow out of the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump claimed the Democrat will go “down as the single worst president by far in the history of our country” in an interview with CNN.

The Democrats have not yet named a replacement at the top of the ticket, but Trump told CNN he believes that Vice-President Kamala Harris will be easier to defeat than Biden.

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A Pennsylvania man said he attended a firearms training class in late June alongside Thomas Matthew Crooks, the would-be assassin whose bullet grazed Donald Trump at a rally in the state last week.

“I was sitting next to real evil there, it really scares me,” Bill Jenkins told The Sun.

Jenkins, a computer programmer and Air Force veteran, said he has spoken to the FBI about his experience.

He described Crooks as a crack shot, and says he believed he saw the 20-year-old gunman smirk when conversation in the class turned to participants praising Donald Trump.

“Looking back, I think he was biting his tongue. Nothing we discussed will have sat well with him,” he added.

“It’s crossed my mind — did that conversation help push him over the edge?”

After weeks of debate over whether he was fit to defeat Donald Trump in November, Joe Biden announced on X on Sunday he will not seek re-election.

Read his full remarks below.

The Trump campaign reportedly wants Joe Biden to stay in the 2024 presidential race, viewing him as a favorable matchup.

That, somehow, makes Donald Trump more supportive of Joe Biden than many mainstream Democrats.

Senator Joe Manchin just became the third member of the Democratic caucus in the upper chamber to call on Joe Biden to step aside.

No longer officially a Democrat himself, Manchin is retiring at the end of this year rather than seek re-election. His seat in deep-red West Virginia is thought to be a likely pickup for Republicans, led by their nominee Jim Justice.

“I came to the decision with a heavy heart that it’s time to pass the torch to a new generation,” said the West Virginia senator.

Trump’s favorability rating increased the week after an assassin tried to shoot him at a recent Pennsylvania rally, according to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll.

Trump’s favorability is up to 40 percent, the highest its been since August of 2020, according to the poll, and well above its roughly 30 percent average of the last four years.

However, the research finds a majority of Americans still view the former president unfavorably, and nearly the same fraction blames him for the climate of politically motivated violence in America, nearly twice the proportion who feel that way about Joe Biden.