Republican frontrunner Donald J. Trump doesn’t seem to be worried about Democrat efforts to block him from the ballot as he has his sights set on next November’s election and predicts his opponent won’t be Joe Biden.
Despite a furious campaign to position former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley as the GOP nominee, the former president holds a formidable and perhaps insurmountable lead heading into primary season and, in an interview with conservative outlet Breitbart News, he talked about who he thinks he’ll be facing off against.
“He’s a cheater. He’s a scoundrel. He’s a bad guy,” Trump said of Biden during the lengthy conversation with reporters Matthew Boyle and Alexander Marlow that took place at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday. “But in his life, he’s always been able to convince people he’s this really nice guy.”
“I laugh when they say, ‘Trump is the evil one, and he’s the nice one.’ That’s the one thing he’s been able to do. All you have to do is look at his credentials,” he added. “When you compare him today to 15 or 20 years ago, he’s a different kind of a guy. The guy can’t talk. The guy can’t put two sentences together.”
“So I do think this: I cannot believe he’s going to be the nominee. I hope he is. But I can’t believe he’s going to be the nominee,” Trump added, feeding the speculation that Democrats will shuffle the flailing octogenarian off into retirement before voters get their chance for a national referendum on the deeply unpopular leader and his catastrophic policies.
During the nearly two-hour sit down with Breitbart, the former and perhaps future president said that while he doesn’t think that old Joe would be a contestant down the stretch, Vice President Kamala Harris wasn’t worthy of betting on for obvious reasons.
While admitting that he doesn’t know who the party would tab to step in for Biden, he suggested that even if some Democrats believe that Harris would have to be the pick because of Biden’s deal with Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) before the state’s 2020 primary to tab a black woman as running mate, that the veep’s vastly underwhelming job performance would likely disqualify her from moving up.
“I don’t know,” he said. “There’s a whole thing that it has to be Kamala because of the whole deal with [Clyburn]. I don’t think they’ll get her by,” according to a teaser for the larger interview published by the outlet on Friday.
The former president recently served up remarks about Harris, damning her with faint praise that she would be an improvement over her boss.
Kamala Harris ‘might be better than’ Biden, says Trump: ‘I don’t think you can have worse than him’ https://t.co/jqD5p555vD via @BIZPACReview
— BPR based (@DumpstrFireNews) December 23, 2023
“It seems like he’s locked into her for a lot of reasons,” Trump said during a conversation with radio host Hugh Hewitt earlier this month. “He has to choose her. I understand. It would seem like the Democrats, if he doesn’t run, have to run her. That’s what all of the professionals like you are saying. I’m not sure that that’s correct, but that’s what they’re saying.”
“Yeah, you’re locked into her,” he added. “And she might be, I can’t say worse. I think she’d be better than him, actually. I actually think that. I don’t think you can have worse than him.”
“That I can’t tell you,” Trump told Breitbart on who he thinks the Democrat nominee will be. “There will be a point at which it’s a free-for-all.”
“I don’t think that Biden will make it to the gate,” the nation’s 45th president added.
There has been some buzz about the Dems “parachuting” in Michelle Obama to be the savior and Hillary Clinton has always been lurking in the weeds so if the party does pull the plug on the malfunctioning puppet, those would be the top two names likely to be in the mix.
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