Donald Trump said he believed Vice President Kamala Harris would be an easier opponent to defeat than President Joe Biden in this November's election.
Last week, Biden officially ended his candidacy for reelection and later endorsed Harris for president. Harris is currently the presumptive Democratic nominee for president and is expected to officially be nominated during the Democratic National Convention (DNC) next month.
Trump discussed Harris' recently launched presidential campaign and potential debate with the vice president during a Monday interview with Fox News' Laura Ingraham.
“They offered me everything that I couldn’t accept, and I accepted it,” Trump said of his late June debate with Biden. “I accepted everything. And we had a debate. It was a great debate."
“I like debating. I’ve done a lot of debates, and I’ve won the debates,” he said. “They were pushing for this early debate. I said, why do we want to do an early debate? It didn’t make sense to me. It turned out I was right, but for the wrong reasons, right? Um, I want to do a debate, but I also can say this. Everybody knows who I am, and now people know who she is.”
The former president then said the debate may have been a mistake as many expressed concern in Biden's ability to campaign and remain in office for another four years.
"Maybe I shouldn’t have debated so well because that was the end of him because from that day on, you could see that he was not gonna be [the nominee]," Trump said. "In my opinion, I said, ‘I don’t think he’s gonna make it anymore.’"
Trump said he would have preferred to run against Biden, though said, "I think she's easier than he is."
“I always felt he was incompetent, but he had a certain base. And no matter how bad he was, people are gonna vote for him," Trump said. "She doesn’t have that base.”
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Trump then panned Harris and warned she would be equally as bad as Biden if not worse.
“She’s a radical left lunatic,” he continued. “She’ll destroy our country. She wants open borders.”
Trump was scheduled to debate Biden for a second time in September prior to Biden's exit from the 2024 race.
Though it remains unclear whether Trump or Harris will debate, Fox News has offered to host a debate between the two this September.
