House Speaker Mike Johnson on Monday renewed his calls for President Joe Biden to resign, a day after the president said he would not seek re-election and endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris, instead.
While Democratic lawmakers hailed President Biden’s historic decision on Sunday not to seek reelection, praising him as putting his country and his party before himself, Republicans said if Biden cannot run for another term in office, then he’s unable to serve as president.
“If everyone acknowledges that he’s incapable of running a campaign, he’s clearly not capable of running the country. I mean, he has nuclear codes,” Johnson said to reporters on Capitol Hill.
“This is not the way the system is supposed to work. There’s a reason it’s unprecedented. You don’t just, you know, steamroll, the rules and the process when you decide your candidate is no longer suitable,” he said.
Republicans seized on Biden’s poor debate performance last month to batter him as incapable of serving four more years.
Now, that he’s out of the presidential election, many are doubling down, demanding he resign his office, too.
Biden’s announcement came after more than two weeks of Democrats urging him to withdraw from the race. Nearly three dozen lawmakers had publicly called on him to end his reelection bid.
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