Biden is facing pressure to drop out. Trump isn't joining in.

Many Republicans have long cast doubt that Biden will be on the ballot in the fall. But after the debate, Trump and his team are insisting that the president isn't going anywhere.

Former President Donald Trump is not known for restrained commentary about his political opponents’ weaknesses.

But after a debate in which a number of Democrats felt President Joe Biden’s performance was so uneven and concerning that he should consider getting out of the presidential contest just weeks before the Democratic National Convention, Trump is holding back from the full pile-on.

Speaking at a rally in Virginia on Friday, Trump said his complaints about Biden have nothing to do with his age, that the president overprepared for the faceoff, and that at the end of the day Biden was likely the toughest competitor he would get.

“He studied so hard that he didn’t know what the hell he was doing,” Trump, 78, said of his 81-year-old rival, adding: “It’s not his age, it’s his competence.”

Trump added that he doesn’t believe Democrats would ditch Biden “because he does better in polls than any of the Democrats they talk about,” pointing to California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Vice President Kamala Harris and “some of the others.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/biden-pressure-drop-out-trump-2024-rcna159541

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