'Worst president, by far': Trump reacts to Biden's exit as Republicans launch attacks against Harris

In his first reaction after US President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race, former President Donald Trump said that his Democratic rival “is the worst president in the history of the United States by far.”

“There has never been a president who has done such damage to our country, from energy independence to letting in millions and millions of illegal immigrants,” Trump told NBC News shortly after Biden’s announcement on Sunday. When asked if he was surprised by the announcement, the business mogul turned politician insisted that Biden “should never have been there in the first place.”

“He should have stayed in his basement,” he remarked. The former president continued with his attacks on his social media platform TruthSocial, claiming that the 81-year-old president does not have COVID.

“Crooked Joe Biden is the Worst President, by far, in the History of our Nation. He has done everything possible to destroy our Country, from our Southern Border to Energy Dominance, National Security, International Standing, and so much more. He was annihilated in an Earth Shattering Debate, and now the Corrupt and Radical Democrats are throwing him overboard,” the former reality TV star wrote on TruthSocial.

“He was not fit to serve from the very beginning, but the people around him lied to America about his Complete and Total Mental, Physical, and Cognitive Demise. Whoever the Left puts up now will just be more of the same. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” he added.

In a separate post, Trump claimed that Biden wanted to get out of the race right after the presidential debate between the two. “Does anybody really believe that Crooked Joe had Covid? No, he wanted to get out ever since June 27th, the night of The Debate, where he was completely obliterated. That was the big moment in Joe Biden’s demise. That was the point in time when Joe was revealed for what he is, an incompetent man who should never have been President. Joe Biden is not fit to serve - He is destroying our Country!” he exclaimed.

Trump’s running mate and other Republican stalwarts hurl attacks against Biden 

Trump’s newly appointed running mate and Ohio Senator JD Vance also took potshots at Biden and slammed Vice President Kamala Harris. “Joe Biden has been the worst President in my lifetime and Kamala Harris has been right there with him every step of the way,” the Republican firebrand asserted.

“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, formally known as Twitter. “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. President Trump and I are ready to save America, whoever’s at the top of the Democrat ticket. Bring it on.”

Meanwhile, the US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson called for Biden’s resignation from the Oval Office. The Republican leader noted that Biden’s announcement posed “an unprecedented juncture in American history” and claimed the president’s decision invalidated the votes of millions of Americans who selected Biden as the Democratic nominee.”

“The party’s prospects are no better now with Vice President Kamala Harris, who co-owns the disastrous policy failures of the Biden Administration,” Johnson wrote in a statement on Sunday.  He went on to call for the president’s resignation. “If Joe Biden is not fit to run for President, he is not fit to serve as President,” Johnson wrote, adding, “November 5 cannot arrive soon enough.”

Florida Governor and former Republican presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis hurled attacks against Harris after Biden endorsed her for the Democratic Party nomination.

“Kamala Harris was complicit in a massive coverup to hide and deny the fact that Joe Biden was not capable of discharging the duties of the office,” Gov. DeSantis wrote on social media, blaming Harris for what he called “the worst border crisis in American history.”

Republican politicians like Senator Mitch McConnel, House Representative Steve Scalise and Elise Stefanik also hurled similar insults.