Reform Party leader Nigel Farage believes former President Donald J. Trump will be “delighted” to face Vice President Kamala Harris in November if she secures the Democratic nomination now Joe Biden has bowed out. He has also revealed the Trump family is “incandescent” at the security failures that allowed a gunman to open fire on the former president in Butler, Pennsylvania.
On Biden‘s exit from the race, Farage told British radio it had become “impossible” for the Democrats to sustain him as a viable contender. “The debate was bad enough; they managed to quell that, but… they couldn’t hide him in a bunker when it came to the NATO summit,” he said, recalling how Biden introduced Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky as “President Putin” and referred to Harris as “Vice President Trump.”
“Look, they’ve been covering up for this guy for years,” Farage said. “He’s not been up to the job for years… an incompetent man who, you know, is sadly past his sell-by date.”
TRUMP VS. HARRIS.
Farage believes Trump will be “delighted” to face Harris, whom Biden has endorsed, noting her lack of support when she ran against Biden for the Democrats’ 2020 nomination. He also notes her close association with the illegal immigration crisis, with Biden having put her in charge of the border in 2021.
However, Farage predicts Harris will still secure the 2024 nomination without serious challenge, as he “cannot see the Democrat getting rid of a black African woman.”
Harris’s father is a Jamaican economist of African descent, and her late mother was an Indian medical researcher.
ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT.
Farage, who flew out to the Republican National Convention to support Trump after the attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania, also revealed the Trump family is “incandescent with rage” at the security failures that allowed “a man with a rifle [to] get onto a roof 125 yards away” from the former president.
“[W]arnings [went] up from the crowd, from the police, and yet it takes Secret Service so long to act. No, the family were both upset and very, very angry,” he said.
VANCE.
Farage has kind words for Trump‘s running mate, Senator J.D. Vance, describing him as embodying “the American Dream.”
“Growing up in abject poverty, drug addiction, fatherless home, and the guy joins the Marines and does well, goes to law school, goes into private equity. I mean, J.D. Vance is a huge success story,” he said.
“I’ve known Vance for over a decade, and he’s a very, very bright, impressive man.”
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