Donald Trump initially said Kamala Harris shouldn't be “allowed” to run against him. Now he wants her “forced off” the campaign trail.

Donald Trump initially said Kamala Harris shouldn’t be “allowed” to run against him. Now he wants her “forced off” the campaign trail.

…

Ahead of Election Day 2020, Trump said Joe Biden shouldn’t have been “allowed” to run for president. In July 2024, he said Kamala Harris shouldn’t be “allowed” to run, either.

Four months later, as a HuffPost report noted, the former president insisted that the Democratic vice president should now be “forced off” the campaign trail.

In recent weeks, as the GOP nominee has struggled to come up with a coherent closing message, he’s fixated on a handful of preoccupations, including his desire to see Biden return to the ballot, his baseless “60 Minutes” conspiracy theory and his insistence that Harris should stop running against him.

🗳️ Register to vote: https://vote.gov/

  • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
    1702·
    12 hours ago

    You know who I think shouldn’t be allowed to run? The guy who tried to stage a coup.

    • corroded@lemmy.world
      462·
      12 hours ago

      I’m going to go ahead and say convicted felons probably shouldn’t be eligible for the country’s highest office, either.

        • RegalPotoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          134·
          11 hours ago

          If your country is in a place where you don’t think banning felons from holding elected office is good because you are worried that the legislative branch will weaponize the judicial branch to stop their opposition from running, then I’d suggest that the problem isn’t one that laws can fix

          • Asafum@feddit.nl
            19·
            10 hours ago

            It was a forethought, it was intentional. The “founding fathers” may have been super naive and absurd in some situations, but this is one they got correct. You don’t want to let the government decide who gets to run in that way because that will almost always be abused no matter what the current society is like.

            There are specific situations like what Colorado tried with Trump that makes sense and have a legal history, he was part of an insurrection, but for “standard” felonies it’s best that we don’t go down that road.

            • 51dusty@lemmy.world
              3·
              6 hours ago

              nevermind standard felonies. if it were almost any other federal position with access to classified material he’d never get a clearance, along with many other politicians; strictly based on business deals with foreign powers, debt and erratic behavior. why these people don’t have to go through the same minimum, non-political checks for access as other federal workers is beyond me… at the very least, he just doesn’t meet the minimum qualifications for access to material needed to perform his job.

              • Asafum@feddit.nl
                1·
                4 hours ago

                If I understand correctly (however dumb I think it is) “we” give him clearance by voting for him. We are supposed to be that check.

                That’s one place the founders fucked up, but also their system of elections was much different than it is now. I for one wouldn’t even be able to vote since I don’t own land… They never expected complete fucking morons and propagandized asshats to be voting. I believe they also expected the electors of the electoral college to override a vote for someone as bat shit crazy as Trump…

  • xantoxis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    13 hours ago

    The moment every candidate fears: The day an unhinged, barely-functioning amoral lunatic says they shouldn’t be in the race. Everyone knows this is what candidates say to other candidates when they are definitely going to win.

  • _bcron_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    12 hours ago

    Knowing Trump and how batshit crazy his followers are I wouldn’t afford him any plausible deniability if people took this as some sort of coded message

  • Lexi Sneptaur@pawb.socialEnglish
    8·
    12 hours ago

    Wasn’t he just saying yesterday how he was “Grateful” to Biden for dropping out “making it so easy to win”??

  • penquin@lemm.ee
    8·
    12 hours ago

    And I should have a billion dollars so I can quit working and enjoy life the way I want it. Fuck this guy.

  • YeetPics@mander.xyz
    3·
    11 hours ago

    You only get to dictate who your running mates are (or to be more specific, which ones get to live and campaign) AFTER you become the dictator.

    Poor old fucker is confused.