Republicans had quite a shake-up coming off of the Republican National Convention, where the party seemed to fully united behind former President Donald Trump and their focus on beating President Biden. Then the GOP like the rest of the country learned that its opponent will not be Biden after all, but likely now Vice President Kamala Harris.

Speaking with NJ Spotlight News, NJ GOP chair Bob Hugin said he wasn’t surprised.

“I personally had predicted it would be Sunday when [Biden] announced he would step down,,” Hugin said. “And once the Republican convention was so smoothly orchestrated and unified the party so much, it was clear after that disastrous debate performance and the scandal to hide President Biden from the public was not going to work and they had to change.”

The question now is how Republicans shift their campaign efforts toward Harris.

“We’re very ready to fight, to run against Vice President Harris,” Hugin said. “She’s clearly the most liberal and least competent presidential candidate we’ve ever had in history. She was the first to run against Biden and then dropped out before she even got to Iowa. The border czar that never went to the border, really failed in everything she did as Vice President, really not prepared at all for this responsibility.”

Trump’s VP nominee, J.D. Vance, has so far polled poorly following the Republican National Convention, but Hugin said he was the right choice for this race.

“He was quite a hit, his policies of America first, putting working families first and foremost, resonates with voters all across the country,” Hugin said. “A 39-year-old man, going to be 40 in August, showing that we have depth, we care about young people, millennials. I think he’s just an incredibly creative and appropriate pick.”