Afrigather 1 of three | Inexperienced Occasion presidential candidate Jill Stein speaks on the 2016 recount effort outdoors Trump Tower as she vowed ‘to battle tooth and nail to confirm the accuracy, safety, and equity of the vote” on December 5, 2016, in New York. File Photograph by Dennis Van Tine/UPI | License Photograph
July 21 (UPI) — Former President Donald Trump and Inexperienced Occasion presidential candidate Jill Stein led responses from candidates getting ready for the 2024 presidential election after Joe Biden dropped out of the race.
Trump’s response was characteristically swift and blunt as he known as Biden the “worst president by far within the historical past of our nation” in an announcement on his Reality Social platform.
“All these round him, together with his physician and the media, knew that he wasn’t able to being president, and he wasn’t,” Trump mentioned. “We’ll endure vastly due to his presidency, however we’ll treatment the harm he has performed in a short time. Make America Nice Once more!”
Stein ran for president in 2016 and he a candidate this yr.
“Joe Biden has been faraway from energy by the identical anti-democratic forces that rigged the sector for him in 2020 and skipped the first to anoint him in 2024,” Stein mentioned in an announcement.
“Do not be fooled. The identical @DNC elites that put him in energy will substitute him with one other software for Wall Avenue and the battle machine. We’ll proceed to battle oligarchy, empire and genocide like our lives rely on it.”
Unbiased candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a former Democrat, counseled Biden for stepping down on social media and known as on Democratic celebration management to be open and clear with processes for choosing a brand new nominee.
“His infirmities have been evident to any unbiased observer from the start. It was this progressive deterioration — and his abandonment of Democratic Occasion rules — that prompted me to enter the race and guarantee American voters had a viable, vigorous various to Donald Trump,” Kennedy mentioned.
“But the response of the DNC was to attempt to cover President Biden’s degeneration from the American public and disable democracy to ram him by way of to his celebration’s nomination.”
Kennedy mentioned, like many Individuals, concern that Democratic elites are going to “rig the nominating course of once more to get a monumentally unpopular vice chairman to step into President Biden’s footwear.” Biden, the Clintons and plenty of different Democrats have already endorsed Kamala Harris.
“I name on the Democratic Occasion to return to its conventional dedication to democracy and exemplify it with an open course of. As an alternative of anointing a candidate hand-picked by DNC elites, the celebration ought to use impartial polling to determine the candidate who can greatest beat Donald Trump. The delegates ought to then choose a nominee based mostly on this data,” Kennedy mentioned.
“If they’d performed this to start with, I might not have needed to depart the Democratic Occasion.”
Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, and Trump’s vice presidential operating mate, mentioned on social media he Biden needs to be disqualified from serving the remainder of his time period as president.
“If Joe Biden ends his reelection marketing campaign, how can he justify remaining President?” Vance (Ohio), posted Sunday on the social platform X. “Not operating for reelection can be a transparent admission that President Trump was proper all alongside about Biden not being mentally match sufficient to function Commander-in-Chief. There isn’t any center floor.”
Biden didn’t marketing campaign closely within the 2020 election, largely due to COVID restrictions and he was main in public opinion polls, which meant he did not need to marketing campaign vigorously.
