Donald Trump Junior, the son of former US President Donald Trump, mocked his father’s successor, US President Joe Biden on Wednesday, as exit polls predicted Trump’s Republicans would win over the Biden Democrats in the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial elections. Speaking to Twitter, Trump Jr. said Democrats collapsed under President Biden.

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“When Biden wakes up tomorrow afternoon, someone will have to tell him that he is officially presiding over the collapse of the Democratic Party,” the 43-year-old businessman tweeted, as exit polls predicted the victory for Glenn Youngkin in Virginia and Jack Ciattarelli in New Jersey over Terry McAuliffe and Phil Murphy, respectively.

While Youngkin should comfortably defeat former governor Virginia McAuliffe, the race between Ciattarelli and incumbent Phil Murphy in New Jersey should be close, with a slight advantage over the former.

Trump Jr., meanwhile, also shared a statement from his father in which the former president praised Youngkin. “I want to thank BASE for coming out strong and voting for Glenn Youngkin. Without you, he wouldn’t have come close to winning. The Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement is bigger and stronger than ever. Glenn will be a great governor, ”the statement read.

The gubernatorial elections of New Jersey and Virginia, which, along with several other polls, constituted “election day” of November 2, were held against the backdrop of the chaotic US military exit from Afghanistan. , US forces leaving the war-torn nation on August 30, nearly 20 years after arriving on Afghan soil in 2001. Biden faced severe criticism for carrying out the withdrawal, although he did said there was “never a good time to withdraw US forces.”

The US exit from Afghanistan allowed the Taliban to seize power there for the second time.