After the President of the United States, Joe Biden, announced this Sunday his decision to end his campaign for reelection, figures from the Republican Party reacted to the news by calling for his immediate resignation from office.
From former president Donald Trump, to the Republican leadership in Congress and prominent voices within the party, it was argued that if Biden does not have the capabilities to be a candidate for the elections on November 5, he is then unfit to continue governing the country.
Trump, who last Thursday accepted the nomination as the Republican candidate for the elections, reacted on his platform Truth Social to the determination of his political opponent.
"Corrupt Joe Biden was not fit to run for president, and he certainly is not fit to serve - and he never was!" he asserted. "Everyone around him, including his doctor and the media, knew he was not capable of being president, and he was not."
The Republican candidate, whose popularity has grown ahead of the presidential elections after surviving an assassination attempt, stated that the United States will suffer greatly due to Biden's presidency. "But we will remedy the damage he has done very quickly. Let's make America great again!" exclaimed Trump, who will have to face a new rival yet to be defined.
Republican Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and other heavyweights of his party in Congress were drastic in demanding that Biden resign immediately.
"If Joe Biden is not fit to run for president, he is not fit to be president. He should resign from office immediately," Johnson wrote on the social network X.
The leader of the House of Representatives stated that Biden's decision is an “unprecedented juncture in the history of the United States.”
"The Democratic Party expelled the Democratic candidate from the ballot, just over 100 days before the elections," he said. "After invalidating the votes of more than 14 million Americans who chose Joe Biden as the Democratic candidate for president, the self-proclaimed 'party of democracy' has shown exactly the opposite."
For his part, J.D. Vance, who was chosen by Trump to accompany him as vice president in the race for the White House, stated that "Joe Biden has been the worst president of my life and Kamala Harris has been there with him every step of the way."
About the current vice president of the U.S. and potential candidate for the presidency for the Democratic Party following Biden's resignation, Vince added: "Over the past four years, she was a co-author of Biden's open border and ecological scam policies that drove up the cost of housing and food. She owns all these failures and has lied for almost four years about Biden's mental capacity, burdening the nation with a president who cannot do the job."
"President Trump and I are ready to save the United States, whoever is at the forefront of the Democratic candidacy. Let's go," he emphasized.
In a post this morning on the same social network, the senator from Ohio also questioned the current president's ability, at 81 years old, to continue in office.
"If Joe Biden ends his re-election campaign, how can he justify remaining president?" questioned the 39-year-old politician.
"Not running for re-election would be a clear admission that President Trump was right from the beginning about Biden not being mentally fit to serve as Commander in Chief," he stressed. "There is no middle ground."
In the same vein, the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, an influential figure in the PR and a staunch critic of the immigration policies of the Biden-Harris administration, expressed his views.
"If Biden is not fit to run FOR the presidency, he is also not fit to hold THE presidency," Abbott said, while warning that "American security is at risk both domestically and abroad."
"A change in the Oval Office is essential –immediately– to ensure the safety of Americans and the security of our country," he stated.
Regarding President Biden's support for Kamala to be the Democratic candidate for the presidential elections, the governor expressed sarcastically: "I guess I'll have to triple the border wall, the barbed wire barriers, and the National Guard at the border."
Following those statements, he shared a clip of an interview with the vice president on NBC and said that her performance at the border "has been a complete failure. The future of the United States is bleak if the border czar becomes president."
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