Trump world has been preparing to run against Kamala Harris for weeks

Donald Trump’s political team has been preparing to run against Vice President Kamala Harris for weeks, something it got one step closer to Sunday after President Joe Biden said he is dropping out of the race.

“We are pretty excited about the fact that he endorsed Kamala,” said Richard Grenell, a former U.S. ambassador to Germany and Trump’s acting director of national intelligence. “As we know in California, she has never been vetted. … Kamala Harris is a product of this whole system. She’s very far left, unvetted and untested.”

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There is no guarantee Harris will replace Biden as the Democratic nominee, but in the hours after Biden announced he was getting out of the race, he and several other key Democrats, including potential rivals, endorsed her candidacy, making her even more of a favorite than she already was.

It’s what Trump’s team and Republicans more broadly expected would happen. And they have been ready.

Last week’s Republican National Convention in Milwaukee came chock-full of attacks on Harris, while Trump’s speech accepting the nomination was written with no direct mentions of Biden; he ad-libbed just one mention of the president. During his 2020 speech accepting the Republican nomination, Biden’s name came up more than 40 times.

“Joe Biden is the worst president in the history of the United States by far,” Trump said in a brief interview Sunday with NBC News, adding: “We will fix what he has done. He should never have been there in the first place.”

Harris, a former senator from California, has said she still has to “earn and win” the Democratic nomination,but she is the only declared candidate and is expected to have a considerable leg up in the process.

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