Schiff, Newsom mock Trump for suggesting Biden may take back nomination

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), alongside California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and others, mocked former President Trump on Tuesday for implying that President Biden may take back the Democratic nomination.

“What are the chances that Crooked Joe Biden, the WORST President in the history of the U.S., whose Presidency was Unconstitutionally STOLEN from him by Kamabla, Barrack HUSSEIN Obama, Crazy Nancy Pelosi, Shifty Adam Schiff, Cryin’ Chuck Schumer, and others on the Lunatic Left, CRASHES the Democrat National Convention and tries to take back the Nomination, beginning with challenging me to another DEBATE. He feels that he made a historically tragic mistake by handing over the U.S. Presidency, a COUP, to the people in the World he most hates, and he wants it back, NOW!!!” Trump said in a post Tuesday on Truth Social.

“It’s ok to be scared,” Schiff, who is also the Democratic nominee for a California U.S. Senate seat, said in a post on the social platform X in response to Trump.

Vice President Harris has risen to become the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee in the wake of President Biden stepping out of the 2024 race. Biden did so after weeks of increasing calls from Democrats, including Schiff, to leave the presidential race due to concerns over his age, mental fitness and ability to recapture the White House in the fall.

“Oh, he's scared,” Newsom said in a post on X in response to Trump’s post about Biden.

Two Republican anti-Trump groups, Republican Voters Against Trump and The Lincoln Project, also went after Trump for the post.

“Trump is ranting on Truth Social about the presidency being ‘STOLEN’ from Joe Biden by ‘Kamabla’ and ‘Barrack HUSSEIN Obama’ and suggests that Biden is going to step back in and challenge him to another debate,” Republican Voters Against Trump said in a post on X.

“This is pretty unhinged even for Trump,” the post continued.

In an emailed statement to The Hill, Ian Krager, a spokesperson for former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), said the post is “just the usual projection of his own insanity.”

The Hill has reached out to the Trump campaign, Sen. Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) office, former President Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama’s office, the Harris campaign and the White House.