Just hours after President Joe Biden withdrew his candidacy for reelection this November, Donald Trump's campaign shared a new advertisement taking on Vice President Kamala Harris, who is currently the presumptive Democratic nominee.
For nearly a month, Biden has faced calls for his exit from the November race after his concerning debate performance against Trump late last month.
On Sunday afternoon, Biden officially ended his candidacy for reelection.
Several hours after Biden withdrew his candidacy, Trump's campaign released a new advertisement panning Harris' tenure in office titled: "Kamala was in on it."
The advertisement claims Harris was fully aware of and complicit in concealing Biden's ailing health, citing a July article from the National Review.
Voiceover of Harris lauding the president's health and fitness are heard as clips of Biden tripping up the stairs of Air Force One and falling while on stage are shown.
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The advertisement goes on to claim Harris has maintained much of Biden's responsibilities behind the scenes as he faces struggles with his health, and further blames her for the nation's border crisis, inflation, and housing crisis.
"They created this mess," the voiceover says of the Biden-Harris administration. "They know Kamala owns this failed record."
Biden announced the end of his 2024 campaign in a letter shared across his social media. “It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President. And while it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term,” Biden wrote.
“My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the best decision I’ve made,” he continued in a separate X post. “Today I want to offer my full support and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our party this year. Democrats — it’s time to come together and beat Trump. Let’s do this.”
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) July 21, 2024
My fellow Democrats, I have decided not to accept the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as President for the remainder of my term. My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the best… pic.twitter.com/x8DnvuImJV INBOX: Statement from Vice President Kamala Harris pic.twitter.com/QUKjLGLo8b
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) July 21, 2024
“I am honored to have the President’s endorsement and my intention is to earn and win this nomination,” Harris wrote in a Sunday statement. “Over the past year, I have traveled across the country, talking with Americans about the clear choice in this momentous election. And that is what I will continue to do in the days and weeks ahead."
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) July 21, 2024
"I will do everything in my power to unite the Democratic party — and unite our nation — to defeat Donald Trump and his extreme Project 2025 agenda," she wrote.
The last presidential candidate to not accept his party's nomination was President Lyndon B. Johnson, who turned down the Democratic Party's nomination in 1968.
