Patrick: Obama is seeking his fourth term in office

(The Center Square) – Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says former President Barack Obama is running for a fourth term in response to President Joe Biden announcing he isn’t running for reelection and is endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris as his replacement.

“Obama is seeking his 4th term as president,” Patrick said in a social media post. “The June debate was a hit job on Biden by his own party; humiliating him was step one to run him out. There was no need for Biden to debate that early, as I said at the time. They were with him every day. They knew how badly he would perform.”

He also reposted a claim he made about the June 27 presidential debate, that it was a set up by Democrats to push a failing Biden out the door, The Center Square reported . After Biden’s disastrous debate performance when he could not complete sentences and appeared confused, Patrick said the decision to schedule the debate so early “was a set-up by the Democrats to replace Biden on the ballot. The Democrats' post-debate analysts on CNN are making it clear that Biden needs to be replaced. So obvious this was the set-up.”

“Obama has been running the White House and will continue to run it with Michelle or Kamala,” Patrick said. “They picked Biden in 2020 so Obama could serve a third term, and now Obama seeks a fourth term.”

He's referring to former First Lady Michelle Obama, who Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, also said could be the Democratic presidential nominee or on the ticket, though that is now unlikely. Cruz also said “Barack Obama is already running the Biden administration. I think he is already the puppet master behind this Biden White House. I don't think that Joe Biden is the decision maker.”

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott made a similar observation as Patrick, saying, “It looks more and more like that very early debate was a set up to force Biden to step aside.” Biden’s Sunday announcement “may not have happened without that disastrous debate.”

Abbott also blasted Biden and his “border czar” Harris for their border policies, saying he will need to “triple the border wall, razor wire barriers and National Guard on the border.”

Not soon after, he announced that Texas National Guard troops were installing triple strand razor wire at the border in El Paso, Texas.

At the Republican National Convention, Abbott urged Americans to vote to secure the border by voting for Trump.

The greatest number of illegal border crossers entered the U.S. under the Biden-Harris administration of over 12 million, including two million who evaded capture, known as gotaways, The Center Square first reported.

Harris has faced criticism for years for not going to the border, not meeting with residents who live there or with family members of those killed by illegal border crossers.

Abbott appointed Texas’ own border czar, Mike Banks, 18 months ago and argues he has done more to secure the border in one day that Harris ever did.

After Biden announced he wasn’t running for reelection, Abbott reiterated that Harris has never acted as a “border czar” or made any effort to secure the border.

“Kamala Harris has not done her job. She's a failure at one of the ... issues that Americans care most about. I think Americans can and should and must reject her at the ballot box in November,” he told Fox News.

Abbott posted a video clip of Harris saying she hadn’t been to the border just like she hadn’t been to Europe. He said in response, “You will see a lot of this. The ‘border czar’ has been an utter failure. America's future is bleak if the border czar becomes president.”