After the Sunday announcement from President Joe Biden that he would be stepping back from the currently unfolding presidential race and putting his support behind Vice President Kamala Harris for this year’s Democratic presidential nomination, outspoken Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) said it was time for Donald Trump to follow suit.
Goldman is currently a member of the House Oversight Committee. Before entering Congress, Goldman assisted with the then-Democratic Party-led House’s first impeachment of Trump when the ex-president was still in office the first time.
“One party’s 81-yr-old candidate cares more about the country than himself. The other party’s 78-yr-old candidate cares only about himself. Trump’s nonsensical, rambling lunacy shows a serious mental decline. Trump should follow Biden’s lead and pass the torch,” Goldman wrote on X, the site formerly called Twitter.
There was a presidential primary on Republicans’ side before Trump secured the party’s already long expected nomination last week, announcing that same week that his running mate for the year would be Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio). Vance’s time in government begins and ends with his current, unfinished Senate term, which he won in 2022. Trump has already faced plenty of push to withdraw from this year’s presidential race, but he’s made no indication of an ambition to actually do so, and many of the Republicans who once ran against him in this year’s primary turned around to support his campaign.
Notably, though, assuming that Harris curries this week’s swift outpouring of support into effectively locking down the Democratic nomination in Biden’s absence, Trump is now — far and away — the oldest major party presidential candidate in this year’s election. Biden’s withdrawal was preceded by extensive questions about his advanced age connected to scrutiny of his performance at a televised debate with Trump last month in Georgia.
