The first big decision a presidential nominee makes is picking a running mate. In announcing his own candidacy for the White House on Monday, former Vice President Mike Pence made it official: “Donald Trump 2024” is running against his own first big decision from 2016.
Awkward.
Meanwhile Nikki Haley, a candidate herself, went on Fox News to remind everyone of the choice Joe Biden made in 2020 after he received the Democratic nomination.
“A vote for President Biden is actually a vote for President Harris,” she said on Fox News. “Make no bones about it. … Every liberal knows … it’s Kamala Harris that’s gonna end up being president if Joe Biden wins this election.”
Now, in case you didn’t get the memo, Haley has this “generational change” narrative she’s been workshopping on the campaign trail. The former governor of South Carolina started banging this drum back in February when she proposed a “competency test” for politicians over 75. It didn’t catch on. She’s apparently moved on to an updated version of a 2020 scare tactic: Biden’s age will prevent him from finishing the term — hence a “President Harris.”