PLANTATION, Fla. – Republican leaders released statements Sunday afternoon reacting to President Joe Biden’s decision to drop out of the race against former President Donald Trump and endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for the Democratic nomination.
The CNN presidential debate on June 27 was defining for Biden. Nearly three dozen Democrats in Congress called for him to drop out of the race. West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin was the latest to join the uproar on Sunday.
Rep. Carlos Gimenez, the former mayor of Miami-Dade County, talked to a group of reporters at Miami International Airport before boarding his flight to Washington, D.C.
“We have seen the decline. We have been seeing it for well over a year. It’s just getting progressively worse and worse, and it’s unfortunate that our adversaries are seeing the same thing: We can’t have a president who that is not at the top of his or her game,” Gimenez said.
Former President Donald Trump released a statement on True Social
Sen. JD Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee: “Over the last four years she co-signed Biden’s open border and green scam policies that drove up the cost of housing and groceries,” Vance wrote on X. “She owns all of these failures, and she lied for nearly four years about Biden’s mental capacity — saddling the nation with a president who can’t do the job.”
Sen. Rick Scott: “It was painfully clear that Biden wasn’t competent for office going way back to 2021. Democrats laughed when I said Biden should be removed from office after his deadly Afghanistan withdrawal disaster. They’re not laughing now. Over those four years, we have seen immense damage done to our country. Our border is wide-open, inflation is crushing American families, and countless Americans have lost their lives at home and abroad due to the policy decisions of Joe Biden and his ‘border czar’ Kamala Harris.”
Florida GOP chair Evan Power: “Democrat leadership has failed Americans by propping up someone unfit to do the job. Every Democrat party leader, especially Vice President Harris, is complicit in this sham presidency and voters will hold them accountable this November. Biden leaves our nation with long-term inflation and high interest rates, record high food and gasoline prices, open borders, indoctrination of children, and empowered the enemies of our nation. And to top it off, Kamala Harris failed with the only job given to her: border czar.”
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