United States elections 2024: Donald Trump Wins
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Ex-Republican lawmaker: Vance ‘completely unqualified’ to be VP
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Former Rep. David Jolly (R-Fla.), who left the Republican Party and become a critic of Donald Trump, says first-term Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) is “completely unqualified” to be the former president’s running mate.
Jolly joined MSNBC on Friday to discuss the long-awaited announcement of whom Trump is going to choose to share the GOP ticket in November. Among the top candidates are Vance, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.).
“Look, I think Rubio and Burgum are two very safe picks and I think they both check the governing and experience box,” Jolly said, later adding, “I think JD Vance is completely unqualified.”
“As a country, we should want somebody qualified to serve,” he continued. “And I think Rubio, Burgum, whatever you think of their ideology, check that box.”
In a recent interview, Vance said he is “very interested” in the role of being Trump’s vice president but expects to still be in the Senate “in a few years.”
“I like being a senator. I’m not trying to leave the United States Senate. It’s an honor to serve the people of Ohio, and frankly, if you asked me, that’s where I expect to be in six months,” he said.
Vance was previously an critic of Trump but has since shifted his tune to support the former president. He was elected to the Senate in 2022.
After the first presidential debate, Rubio, Burgum and Vance supported Trump and praised his performance against President Biden’s lackluster one.
Rubio said he’s not the vice presidential candidate, and that “no one is right now.”
Jolly, who represented Florida’s 13th District in the House from 2014-17, said he thinks Rubio has “put in his time” and, as a Cuban American, can help bring Trump a new voter demographic.
Jolly argued the country won’t have enough time to get to know Burgum before the election, but the governor may be someone who will “stay in the shadows of Donald Trump,” which could appeal to the former president.
Trump says he has already made his pick and will announce his running mate at the Republican National Convention, which begins July 15.
The former president is also set to hold a rally Wednesday in Doral, Fla., just outside of Rubio’s home city of Miami. If Trump were to choose Rubio, however, their same-state residency may cause some complications.
“Look, the convention’s the week after next. Trump has to make a decision soon,” Jolly said. “Maybe it’s Wednesday. We don’t know.”
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In Choosing a V.P., Trump Is Elevating the Next Generation of Republicans
The process of choosing a running mate has created a new roster of rising Republicans with the potential to lead the ticket in 2028.
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Do Republicans realize Trump is the old guy if Biden drops out? Haley would fix that.
If President Biden ends up leaving the race, Republicans will be left alone with their own old candidate: Donald Trump.
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Do Republicans realize Trump is the old guy if Biden drops out? Haley would fix that.
Vice President Kamala Harris is nearly 20 years younger than Trump. That could be bad for Republicans.
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In light of Joe Biden’s disastrous debate night, polls have indicated that Donald Trump is pulling away from the current president.
The past week has made clear what conservatives have been dwelling on for years, and was widely dismissed as partisan overreaction, is now clear to a large part of America: Biden is not mentally fit to be president.
Democrats are now in disarray, debating whether or not to drop the sitting president from their own party’s ticket. I’d honestly admire the Democrats’ decision to even consider dropping Biden had they not covered up the mental state of the sitting president for four years, only changing course once the truth finally slipped out to the American public.
It appears that Trump is on his way to being handed back the presidency on a silver platter. Whether Democrats allow Biden to remain the nominee or are forced to admit they rallied behind an unfit party leader for the past four years, Trump somehow holds the amazing virtue of stability.
Nikki Haley is still the best option for Republicans, and Biden's current state only makes that clearer
So, just imagine how well Nikki Haley (or any other Republican with moderate appeal) would be doing.
Polling from the peak of the GOP primary showed Haley performing better than Trump in a head-to-head with Biden long before the entire Democratic machine turned on the president. The more Democrats cannibalize themselves over this debate, the more the GOP looks orderly by comparison, even though that is certainly not the case.
Any reasonable GOP candidate would have already been leading Biden and, at this point, would be planning on to decorate the White House.
Repubilcans need a different Trump:Republicans deserve the version of Trump we saw during the debate. Too bad it won't last.
However, given that the alternative is still Trump, there remains some doubt, and his presence on the ballot is likely to hobble GOP efforts up and down the ticket, as his crop of endorsements did in the 2022 midterm elections.
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Biden’s mental competency stands out in contrast to Trump's, making even the former president seem presidential during their side-by-side debate. Imagine the stark contrast between Biden and a younger, more disciplined GOP candidate.
A candidate like Haley, who enjoyed strong cross-party appeal throughout the primary, would have had the added benefit of capturing the turncoat Democrats most put off by the tragic Biden debate performance. While some Republicans say they don’t want those votes, a captured Democratic vote counts just as much as that of a die-hard Trump supporter.
Now, Trump will likely be the old guy
The leading choice to replace Biden is Vice President Kamala Harris, 59, who is nearly 20 years younger than Trump, 78.
The other popular options are all even younger: California Gov. Gavin Newsom, 56, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, 52, and U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, 42.
If the Democrats decide to drop Biden, Trump becomes the old guy in the race who can't hide behind "Sleepy Joe." While Biden's age problems are far more apparent than Trump's, voters are right to be concerned about Trump entering his 80s, especially when he doesn't appear to be in the best physical shape.
Nearly 60% of all Americans say both Trump and Biden are too old to serve a second term, and nearly half of registered voters under the age of 30 are concerned that old candidates like these two lack the ability to understand issues facing younger people.
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An overlooked advantage that Democrats might retake is the debate of age, and it could have been avoided had Republicans simply chosen a candidate not entering his 80s.
If Democrats decided to drop Biden, they'd be wise to lean into the age angle given the opposition, no matter who their choice is among the leading options.
Republicans may win back the White House, but they'll do it by accident
If you’re interested in handily winning elections, you need to appeal to moderates. This is the group most likely to have had the presidential debate impact their choice and the group that Trump has had the most difficulty convincing of a second term.If Republicans manage to win this election, which at this moment it seems like they will, they owe it to the Democrats, not themselves. The GOP chose wrong every step of the way leading up to this election, culminating in the least popular election in recent memory.
Thankfully for them, their opponents did the exact same thing, pretending that everything was fine until the truth was impossible to deny. Now, as the Democrats scramble to decide who is even going to face Trump, Republicans must get to work pressing the slim advantage they now hold thanks to a series of bad decisions.
Dace Potas is an opinion columnist for USA TODAY and a graduate of DePaul University with a degree in political science.
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Trump's presidency viewed more favorably than Biden's, post-debate poll finds
More than half of voters now approve of Trump's performance as president, despite low ratings when he was in the job.
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Trump's presidency viewed more favorably than Biden's, post-debate poll finds
Voters see Trump as more competent, even though Biden succeeded in getting sweeping laws passed through a divided Congress, while Trump didn't deliver on similar promises.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — More registered voters believe former President Donald Trump would do a better job than President Joe Biden tackling two of the top issues of the 2024 campaign, the economy and immigration, according to an exclusive poll by USA TODAY/Suffolk University taken after Biden's disastrous debate with Trump.
The poll also found voters view Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, more capable of handling national security issues and dealing with China. Biden received higher marks than Trump on just two of six key issues surveyed: handling race relations and health care.
Perhaps most troubling for Biden: 51% of respondents said they now approve of Trump's job performance when he was president from 2017 to 2021, compared to 41% who said they approve of Biden's current job performance.
"He’s the real deal. Under him, let’s see, the economy was doing great. My life was a lot easier financially than it is now, and overall, I think he was well respected," said Carol Crossland, a 56-year-old Trump supporter from San Antonio, Texas.
The findings add to the woes of a Biden campaign in crisis amid sinking poll numbers and calls for the 81-year-old Biden to withdraw from the race following his poor debate performance 10 days ago.
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The poll, a sample of 1,000 registered voters taken between June 28 and 30, found the 78-year-old Trump leading Biden 41% to 38%, a gain of three points for the former president since USA TODAY's last poll in May, though it remains within the poll's 3.1% margin of error. Independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr., had support from 8% of voters and three others from about 1% each.
Biden has vowed he will press on in his campaign, telling a crowd at a campaign rally in Madison, Wisconsin Friday, "I'm staying in the race."
Nearly 60% of Americans view Trump as someone "who can get things done," compared to 44% for Biden − even though Biden succeeded in getting sweeping laws passed in a divided Congress to address the climate, domestic manufacturing and historic infrastructure spending that Trump promised but failed to deliver in his four-year term.
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The economy/inflation, the poll found, is the most important issue of 35% of voters, tops among all issues, second is threats to democracy, 21%, followed by immigration at 19%, abortion at 9% and a balanced Supreme Court at 7%.
But the economy remains a liability for Biden despite a historic jobs market, low unemployment and a booming stock market. Americans, by a 54% to 40% margin, believe Trump would do a better handling the economy than Biden.
"I feel as if Biden hasn’t pressed the issue enough about how bad the economy has gotten. It's not his main concern," said Robert Sawyer, a 23-year-old longshoreman who works on the docks in Baltimore and considers himself an independent voter. "I feel like the economy was better under Trump," he said, pointing to inflation under Biden.
(The current annual inflation rate is 3.3%, less than half what it was two years ago coming out of the pandemic-inspired recession, but well above the 2% it hovered around from 2016 through 2019. Average hourly wages are currently increasing at 3.9% annually.)
Trump also gets nod on national security, dealing with China
Registered voters also trust Trump to handle immigration 53% to 40% over Biden; national security, 52% to 42%; and dealing with China, 51% to 41%. Biden is perceived as the better candidate to handle race relations, 51% to 41%, and health care 50% to 40%.Throughout his three and a half years in the White House, Biden has faced criticism from Republicans over migration at the southern border. Last month, Biden took executive action to turn away migrants when the border is overwhelmed after congressional Republicans blocked compromise legislation that sought the same goal.
The poll did not ask respondents who they believe is better equipped to protect democracy − a theme the Biden campaign has made central to the president's reelection bid.
In terms of leadership qualities, 63% of poll respondents said Trump has a "vision for the country," compared to 54% who said the same of Biden. More voters, 46% to 42%, also said Trump will keep his promises as president.
But Biden fared better in other qualities. More voters said Biden is honest and trustworthy, 45% compared to Trump's 33%. Sixty percent of respondents said Biden has the right experience to be president; 52% said Trump does.
"I definitely support Biden. Trump has got to go. We have a black cloud in our midst," said Steve Cattron, a 67-year-old self-described moderate Democrat from Cape May County, New Jersey, who still supports Biden despite his rocky debate.
"I mean yes, he's old, I feel he’s too old for the position," said Cattron, who owns an electrical contracting company. "But I'd vote for him hands down before I vote for Trump. When someone can run as president and break every rule, every law, what does that do as far as integrity in our democracy?"
Trump is polling better than his approval rating while in White House
The USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll found a troubling trend for the Biden campaign that's been consistent in other polling. Despite Trump's job approval rating often hovering below 40% when he was in the White House, voters now have a more positive view of the Trump years.Trump left the White House in 2021 with a 34% Gallup approval rating, his all-time low. But the new USA/Suffolk University poll found 27% of respondents today "strongly approve" of Trump's past job performance in office, while another 24% said they approve.
"The country was running just fine four or five years ago with him, and I can only see him doing a better job than he did last time because he has four years of experience," said Zach Anderson, a 30-year-old maintenance technician form the south side of Chicago, who said he plans to vote for Trump.
As for Biden, Anderson said: "I think he’s just gotten old and there’s signs of dementia or something."
David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk Political Research Center, said Biden and Trump are both disliked by a similar majority of Americans − Biden was viewed unfavorably by 57% of voters in the poll and Trump by 55%.
"There's no difference there. They're both disliked equally," Paleologos said. "And the tiebreaker is job performance. There's a small slice of people who will say during Trump's administration − like him or not − I believe he did a better job."
The broad discontent of both major-party candidates has some voters looking elsewhere.
Megan Hollar, a 40-year-old educator from Cincinnati, Ohio, said she puts herself in the camp of "we need some new faces."
"I feel like we are stuck in old thoughts and old ways, and we're not really moving forward in the country," said Hollar, who is leaning toward voting for Green Party nominee Jill Stein.
Yet the poll found that Democrats are far more open to dumping Biden for a new nominee than Republicans are of abandoning Trump. While 41% of Democrats said they wanted Biden replaced at the top of the ticket, only 14% of Republicans and 12% of Trump supporters said the GOP should replace him on its ticket.
Still, many Democrats and anti-Trump independent voters said in a race against Trump, they're happy to back Biden.
"Biden seems too old, and Trump can't tell the truth," said Steve Sutton, 55, who works in information technology in Seattle. But Sutton made clear he will vote for the Democrat running against Trump. "I'm a supporter of Biden and I'm a supporter of anti-Trump," he said.
Shalia Murray, 57, of Round Rock, Texas, said she is still convinced Biden is the better candidate than Trump after the debate. "He's honest, he's experienced and he puts people before party," Murray said of Biden. And even though Trump "may have been more coherent and easily understood" in the debate, she said she felt he was "lying and exaggerating."
"I'm excited for voting for him," Murray said of Biden, but worries others aren't so enthused.
"I am concerned with the voter apathy in our area and across the country. I think people are more focused on age, rather than with what the reality of our everyday could be under the two different administrations," she said.
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Biden is a Stalin wannabe.
