Biden says Trump’s Vance VP selection means MAGA politics will be ‘future’ of GOP

President Joe Biden said he believes former President Donald Trump’s selection of Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) as his running mate has cemented the Republican Party into the mold of “Make America Great Again” politics.

“He’s decided that MAGA Republican politics is going to be the future of the Republican Party,” Biden said of Trump’s running mate decision during an interview with BET News’s Ed Gordon released Wednesday evening.

Trump announced Vance as his vice presidential candidate Monday. The Ohio senator, known for his hard-line nationalistic policies, formally accepted the nomination in a wide-ranging speech Wednesday evening at the Republican National Convention.

In a raspy voice, Biden praised Vance as “a bright guy and a hard-working senator” but worried that the Ohioan is “a really, really, really conservative MAGA Republican.”

Former President Donald Trump, left, speaks at a campaign rally on June 9, 2024, in Las Vegas, and President Joe Biden, right, speaks on June 4, 2024, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo)

While reiterating that violent rhetoric must be “toned down” in the wake of the assassination attempt against Trump, Biden claimed that he will “take on” the former president as he has “been taking him on: based on the issues.”

“There’s no room for violence, you can’t be talking about violence,” Biden told Gordon before criticizing past comments Trump has made and then clarified. “You can’t be saying that if I lose the election, there’ll be a bloodbath, which he says, that the Jan. 6 folks were good folks and should be released from prison.”

His words came as some Republican critics held the Democratic Party at least partly responsible for raising the political temperature to a degree they say fueled the assassination attempt on Trump.

Biden said he wants to talk about the “serious, serious differences we have on the issues and the future of the country.”

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In a preview of his interview with BET News released earlier Wednesday, Biden said he would consider dropping his reelection bid on one condition.

“If I had some medical condition that emerged, if somebody, if doctors came to me and said, you got this problem and that problem,” the president told Gordon.

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