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Former President Donald Trump's estranged niece, Mary Trump, predicted on Friday who has the "best chance" of beating her uncle in November's presidential election.
After President Biden's weak showing against Trump, the presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee, during the first presidential debate in Atlanta late last month, the Democratic party has been divided on whether Biden should continue his reelection campaign or if he should step aside and let another prominent Democrat, like Vice President Kamala Harris, take the reins. So far, 18 Democratic lawmakers, along with other prominent Democrats, have called for Biden to quit his campaign. However, Biden has repeatedly vowed to stay in the race, which Harris has made clear she supports.
"I don't believe that Pres. Biden is the only person who can beat Donald. But I do believe he is the person who has the best chance to beat him," Mary Trump wrote in her Substack blog on Friday, adding that the Atlanta debate "was a bad night."
Mary Trump is a liberal progressive who offers political commentary on her Substack. She is a fierce critic of her uncle, calling him "the worst, weakest, most traitorous candidate for the presidency in this country's history" in Friday's Substack article.
Newsweek reached out to Biden and Trump's campaigns as well as Mary Trump's Substack via email for comment.
Mary Trump's article comes on the heels of Biden's first solo press conference of the year. Biden survived the high-stakes presser at the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) summit in Washington, D.C., with minimal gaffes. His most notable blunder was calling Harris, "Vice President Trump."
Mary Trump said that Biden "took [the press] to school" during the news conference that she said journalists were hoping to be another debacle like the Atlanta debate.
Although he drifted off at times, Biden answered questions about economic policy and NATO with extended coherent responses. He also reiterated his plans to stay in the presidential race. While he said that Harris is qualified to serve as president, he said, "I think I'm the most qualified person to run for president. I beat [Trump] once and I will beat him again."
Speaking on Biden's remarks about Harris, Mary Trump wrote in Friday's Substack article, "It was an important reminder that we have a strong ticket with two strong candidates. Either one of them can beat Donald..."
A Washington Post/ABC News/Ipsos poll conducted from July 5 to 9 showed Biden and Trump tied at 46 percent among 2,041 national registered voters. The poll's margin of error is plus or minus 2 percentage points. In a hypothetical match-up between Harris and Trump, Harris would get 49 percent of the vote while Trump would get 47 percent. However, The Washington Post reported that Harris's two-point lead over Trump is "not statistically significant."
Mary Trump mentioned Trump's friendly meeting with far-right Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the former president's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Thursday.
"While Donald Trump, fascist and kisser of dictators' a**es, hosted the autocratic prime minister of Hungary, Biden discussed foreign policy and NATO's plans to defend democracy from [Russian President] Vladimir Putin, the enemy of the Western alliance," Mary Trump wrote, drawing a stark contrast between the two candidates.
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