Senate Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, both smiling and appearing gleeful and excited, publicly endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for President Tuesday.
President Joe Biden, recovering from a week-long stretch of Covid, announced he will address the nation Wednesday evening in a primetime special to explain his decision for ending his re-election campaign. As Democrats across the board get their ducks in a row, Donald Trump appeared to melt down late Tuesday morning in a series of angry rapid-fire social media posts.
“We are here today to throw our support behind Vie President Harris!” a rarely-excited Majority Leader Schumer declared, almost shouting, as he announced he was “clapping.”
Both Leaders vowed to hold the Senate and take back the House.
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The two top congressional Democrats were going to meet with the now-presumptive presidential nominee on Tuesday before endorsing, but that meeting has reportedly been postponed. On Monday, Jeffries talked to reporters while appearing to try to not make any announcement:
But after the Democratic donation site ActBlue took in nearly $150 million in the time since Biden ended his re-election campaign, and the Harris for President campaign announced it had received a record-breaking $81 million in donations in the first 24-hour period, and with every Democratic governor endorsing Harris, and nearly every House and Senate Democrat endorsing the VP, it appears Schumer and Jeffries decided time was of the essence.
As all these moves are being made, Donald Trump appears to be maintaining a slow campaign schedule. His campaign website continues to list only two upcoming scheduled rallies per week, Trump this week is holding a solo rally without his new vice presidential running mate, U.S. Senator JD Vance, on Wednesday, and the two candidates will hold a joint rally Saturday.
But on his social media website Truth Social, Trump is far more active, and ranted for an hour and a half Tuesday morning:
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10:32 AM: Trump accused the Biden/Harris Administration of not properly protecting him when a 20-year old registered Republican opened fire on the crowd at his Pennsylvania rally ten days ago, killing a supporter, seriously wounding two others, and apparently causing the ex-president a bloody ear. Trump claimed he was “forced to take a bullet for Democracy,” and called it his “great honor” in all-caps.
11:25 AM: “Why did Fox News put up Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, where I am leading? They make me fight battles that I shouldn’t have to fight!” Trump angrily declared.
11:26 AM: A furious Trump lashes out, writing, “I can’t believe it! They’re turning Crooked Joe Biden, the Worst President in the History of the United States, into a ‘Hero’ – He was pushed out of power like a dog, and look what the Radical Left is able to do. MAGA2024!”
11:26 AM: In his second rapid-fired post, Trump announced, “I don’t know who said it, or where it came from, perhaps the Radical Left, but I never discussed, or thought of, Jamie Dimon or Larry Fink for Secretary of the Treasury.”
11:26 AM: His third rapid-fire post, Trump writes, “Lyin’ Kamala Harris destroys everything she touches!”
12:03 PM: Trump brands the Vice President and his presumptive opponent, “Lyin’ Kamala Harris,” and demands she answer if she thinks President Biden can serve for the next six months. Inexplicably, he adds, “Now it appears Joe is delegating his Presidential Authority to unelected Washington Bureaucrats! He doesn’t even trust his Vice President. WHO IS RUNNING THE COUNTRY?”
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