Trump Refuses to Accept He's Not Running Against Biden Anymore

Daily Kos, July 22, 2024. (415 Recs, 333 Cmts).

Just like that, Donald Trump went from being three years younger than his opponent in the upcoming election to being 19 years older. That change seems to have left Trump a wee bit confused. In the hours since President Joe Biden announced that he would not be a candidate for the 2024 nomination, Trump has posted at least seven times on social media … and every one of them is about Biden.

He even seems to be begging for Biden to come back.

It’s all understandable. Trump’s schtick hasn’t really changed since 2019. And for a guy as old as Trump, breaking in new material is hard. Trump twisted, turned, and tried multiple approaches since Sunday afternoon. He repeatedly claimed that Biden did not really test positive for COVID-19 and had dropped out of the race because [insert conspiracy theory here].

He complained that Biden wasn’t fit to run the country, he whined about the money his campaign had wasted smearing Biden, and he claimed that Democrats are somehow “stealing” the election from Biden. He was still at it Monday morning, complaining about Biden while giving a shout-out to his authoritarian pals. But what he hasn’t done in any of these posts is mention Vice President Kamala Harris, the person he will actually be facing on Election Day.

Trump just can’t quit Biden. Republicans have supposedly been developing a strategy for running against Harris. But after months of calling for Biden to drop out, one Republican strategist now says they are feeling like “the dog that caught the car” and that they were “less than enthusiastic” about the change in their Democratic opponent...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/7/22/2256891/-Trump-refuses-to-accept-he-s-not-running-against-Biden-anymore
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