GOP politicians who have been mentioned as possible candidates former President Trump might pick as his running mate offered their comments during and after Trump’s debate with President Joe Biden on Thursday night, focusing on Biden’s failing capacity to communicate and what that indicated about the danger of him being reelected.

Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio told CBS News, “The president tonight, President Biden, looked ways that I think are concerning not just for Democrats but for America because our adversaries are seeing this broadcast too. And may conclude that they can take advantage of whatever they conclude from it. That’s concerning, and that’s something that will be relevant to a lot of people watching this from a political angle. But at the core is just that choice; there’s no question from the economy to public safety to our standing in the world, our country was stronger and better off when Trump was president.”

“We saw tonight what we’ve been seeing now for a number of years and it’s only gotten progressively worse,” he told Fox News’ Sean Hannity. “They’re going to watch this debate today in Beijing and in Moscow and Tehran and you worry that adversaries will see that and conclude from it, ‘They’ve got a weak president in that White House.’”

Arkansas GOP Sen. Tom Cotton commented on X, “After only 13 minutes, this debate has made clear: a vote for Biden is a vote to make Kamala Harris president. Let’s be clear: Joe Biden has been a disgrace to our military and our veterans. He’s treated them with contempt. It’s deeply alarming that Joe Biden needs to be secluded for seven days so he can speak coherently for 90 minutes. Remember, this performance is Biden at his absolute best after seven days of secluded rest and prep.”

After only 13 minutes, this debate has made clear: a vote for Biden is a vote to make Kamala Harris president.

— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) June 28, 2024

Let's be clear: Joe Biden has been a disgrace to our military and our veterans.

He's treated them with contempt.

— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) June 28, 2024

It's deeply alarming that Joe Biden needs to be secluded for seven days so he can speak coherently for 90 minutes.

— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) June 27, 2024

Remember, this performance is Biden at his absolute best after seven days of secluded rest and prep.

— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) June 28, 2024

Ohio GOP Sen. J.D. Vance told NBC News, “Incredible contrast between the meandering, low-energy approach of Joe Biden and the high-energy command of the facts approach of Donald Trump.”

Vance mentioned Biden seemingly linking illegal immigration to the success of America’s economy,

Joe Biden bragging about the fact that his economy has been good for illegal aliens instead of American citizens. https://t.co/ss8nI2to1q

— J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) June 28, 2024

North Dakota GOP Governor Doug Burgum told NBC News, “I think that President Trump showed what he shows a lot of people, which is whether he’s in small groups or whether he’s at a fundraiser, right now he’s in a great spot. He’s calm, he’s strong, he’s confident. I mean, he’s not the guy that was running in 2016. He knows what it’s like to be president.”

South Carolina Republican Sen. Tim Scott seemingly made a pointed reference to Biden’s chances against Trump:

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— Tim Scott (@votetimscott) June 28, 2024

He added, “Three things are clear: 1. America was and is better under a Trump Administration. 2. Biden is unfit to be in office and the people in his orbit should be ashamed of propping him up. 3. Trump dominated. There can’t possibly be a second debate.”

Three things are clear:

1. America was and is better under a Trump Administration.

2. Biden is unfit to be in office and the people in his orbit should be ashamed of propping him up.

3. Trump dominated. There can’t possibly be a second debate.

— Tim Scott (@votetimscott) June 28, 2024

A trial date has been set for the man accused of killing four University of Idaho students back in November 2022.

The suspect, who is not being named by The Daily Wire per a policy on mass killers, will face a jury beginning on June 2, 2025, Newsweek reported. The trial date was set by Judge John Judge of Idaho’s Latah County. The trial is expected to last until August 29, 2025.

The suspect, 29, has pleaded not guilty to the November 13, 2022, killings of Ethan Chapin, 20; Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Madison Mogen, 21, as they slept in their off-campus home in the college town of Moscow.

Part of the evidence against him, according to the prosecution, is surveillance footage showing the suspect’s white Hyundai Elantra near the scene of the crime at the time the murders took place.

The defense team has argued that the suspect regularly drove around late at night looking at the stars but was not in the vicinity of the crime.

“[The suspect] was out driving in the early morning hours of Nov. 13, 2022, as he often did to hike and run and/or see the moon and stars. He drove throughout the area south of Pullman, Washington, west of Moscow, Idaho,” lead defense attorney Anne Taylor wrote in a court filing in April.

To back this up, the defense plans to call an expert witness “to show that [the suspect’s] mobile device was south of Pullman, Washington and west of Moscow, Idaho on November 13, 2022; that [the suspect’s] mobile device did not travel east on the Moscow-Pullman Highway in the early morning hours of November 13th,” according to the court filing.

But Latah County Prosecuting Attorney Bill Thompson said that the alibi was too vague and that the defense shouldn’t be allowed to call any witnesses other than the defendant to prove his whereabouts, Fox News reported.

“With the exception of the reference to Wawawai Park (which is new), the defendant is offering nothing new to his initial ‘alibi’ that he was simply driving around during the morning hours of November 13, 2022,” Thompson wrote in a previous filing.

The suspect has been charged with four counts of murder and one count of burglary relating to the killings.

Part of the evidence that led to the suspect’s arrest, mentioned in a previously unsealed probable cause affidavit, showed that police were able to narrow the timeframe of the crime to between 4:00 a.m. and 4:25 a.m. and reviewed video footage taken in the area in the time before and after the murders are believed to have occurred. Video showed a white Hyundai Elantra without a front license plate (front license plates are required in Washington and Idaho, but not in Pennsylvania, where the car was registered) in the area between 3:29 a.m. and 4:20 a.m.

The vehicle can be seen passing the off-campus residence three times before returning a fourth time around 4:04 a.m. and attempting to turn around on the road. The vehicle was next seen around 4:20 a.m. traveling away from the direction of the off-campus residence at high speed, heading in the direction of a road that eventually leads to Pullman, Washington, where the suspect attended Washington State University (WSU).

Video footage from the WSU campus showed a white Hyundai Elantra leaving the area and heading toward Moscow at around 2:53 a.m. At around 5:25 a.m., this vehicle was again observed on five cameras in Pullman and the WSU campus.

Police pulled records for white Hyundai Elantras registered at WSU on November 29 – just over two weeks after the murders were committed – and found one belonging to the man who was eventually arrested. Police reviewed the owner’s Washington state driver’s license and determined he matched the suspect’s physical description provided by one of the surviving roommates.

Police matched the suspect to the vehicle through two previous traffic stops in the months before the murders. They also learned that the suspect registered his car in Washington and received Washington plates on November 18 – five days after the murders.

Police also reviewed cell phone data to show the suspect’s phone did not ping any cellular towers near the crime scene during the relevant timeframe, but an expanded examination of cell phone data showed the phone stopped reporting data to the network at around 2:47 a.m. At that time, the white Elantra was leaving Pullman and heading toward Moscow. The phone next pinged at 4:48 a.m. in an area south of Moscow, heading back to Pullman. Cell records also showed that the suspect left his home in Pullman around 9:00 a.m. on November 13 and traveled back to Moscow.

Cell records dating back to June 2022 showed the suspect’s phone was in the crime scene area on at least 12 occasions before the murders – all but one in the late evening or early morning hours.