Donald Trump considers Joe Biden’s “comeback”

Former President Donald Trump suggested that President Joe Biden is headed for a “comeback” in this year's presidential election, while sharply criticizing Vice President Kamala Harris for a “crash” in the polls.

Trump was furious about a recent visit by Harris – who became the Democratic nominee after Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed her in July – in a post on Truth Social that he called “ultra-left” on Monday.

While referring to the vice president as “Comrade Kamala Harris” and falsely labeling her a “Marxist,” the ex-president accused her of calling for “unity” in a deal he described as “Trump-hating.”

“Comrade Kamala Harris walks into an ultra-left, Trump-hating spice store that I hear carries horrible, overpriced products and calls for 'unity,'” Trump wrote, referring to a visit by Harris to a Penzeys Spices brand spice store in Pittsburgh on Saturday.

Harris urged voters to “start a new chapter” regarding Trump during their visit to the store. An “About Republicans” page on the store's website denounces the Republican Party as advocating “cruelty, racism, Covid lies, climate change denial and threats to democracy.”

Trump further speculated in his post that Democrats would somehow put Biden back at the top of their list because voters concluded that the vice president was more liberal than some senators.

“When people started to realize that she is a Marxist, MUCH MORE LIBERAL than crazy Bernie Sanders or even Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren, her poll numbers started to plummet,” Trump wrote. “Who are they going to put up next? How about a Biden comeback?”

Newsweek reached out to the Harris team and the White House via email on Monday for comment.

Harris has seen a slight decline in national polls in recent days, although it is by no means clear that this is a “crash.”

A New York Times/A Siena College poll released over the weekend shows Trump leading head-to-head by 1 percentage point, well within the poll's margin of error.

An average of the latest polls compiled by FiveThirtyEight still showed Harris leading 2.8 percent nationwide as of Monday afternoon.

Trump's post on Monday was not the first time he speculated about a Biden “comeback” and a return to the top of the Democratic nomination list after dropping out of the race.

On August 6, Trump envisioned a scenario in which his former opponent would show up at the then-upcoming Democratic National Convention to “withdraw the nomination” and demand another debate. He claimed that Biden secretly believed he had made a “historically tragic mistake” by supporting Harris.