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By Rachel Dobkin
Weekend Reporter
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Former President Donald Trump, front-runner for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, has predicted that President Joe Biden won't "make it to the gate" in the general election.
No sitting president in modern U.S. history has lost their party's nomination in the primaries, so many believe Biden will be the Democratic nominee in 2024.
However, Trump said he "can't believe he's going to be the nominee" in an interview with far-right news outlet Breitbart on Thursday.
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Trump took a jab at his political rival, calling Biden a "cheater" and a "scoundrel."
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"He's a bad guy," Trump said. "But in his life, he's always been able to convince people he's this really nice guy. I laugh when they say, 'Trump is the evil one, and he's the nice one.' That's the one thing he's been able to do."
Trump has been criticized, particularly on the left, for the several criminal indictments he currently has against him. Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges facing him, while calling the indictments politically motivated.
The former president also criticized Biden's mental fitness.
"All you have to do is look at his credentials. When you compare him today to 15 or 20 years ago, he's a different kind of a guy. The guy can't talk. The guy can't put two sentences together. So I do think this: I cannot believe he's going to be the nominee. I hope he is. But I can't believe he's going to be the nominee," Trump said.
Biden's age and cognitive ability have been major talking points of the 2024 campaign, despite the 81-year-old being only four years Trump's senior.
There have been talks of Biden's vice president, Kamala Harris, getting support for the Democratic nomination, but Trump said in the Breitbart interview that he doesn't think Harris will get it either, adding that he thinks it will be a "free-for-all" among Democrats. Harris has not shown interest in running against Biden, but rather has expressed enthusiasm to be his running mate for another four years.
"I don't think that Biden will make it to the gate," Trump added.
Newsweek reached out to Trump and Biden's campaigns via email for comment Friday.
Despite Trump's predictions, a Quinnipiac poll conducted from December 14 to December 18 found that Biden had the majority of Democratic voter support compared to his primary rivals.
Out of the 683 Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters, 75 percent supported Biden, while 13 percent backed author Marianne Williamson and 5 percent chose U.S. Representative Dean Phillips of Minnesota. The poll's margin of error when surveying this group was 3.8 percent.
Meanwhile, Trump's Republican opponent Chris Christie, former New Jersey governor, said during the fourth GOP primary debate in early December that Trump is "unfit" to be president.
"This is an angry, bitter man who now wants to be back as president because he wants to exact retribution on anyone who has disagreed with him, anyone who has tried to hold him to account for his own conduct," Christie said.
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