Democrats were in turmoil when Joe Biden was forced out of the Presidential race in a Nancy Pelosi-led coup.
At first he seemed to go out quietly and even endorsed Kamala Harris early.
But now Joe Biden just made one admission about the Presidential race that has Kamala Harris seeing red.
Unsurprisingly, President Joe Biden privately regrets dropping out of the 2024 Presidential election and reportedly stubbornly insists he could’ve beaten President-elect Donald Trump if he wasn’t forced out of the race by his fellow Democrat elites.
Coulda, woulda, shoulda…
Biden and some of his closest aides have told confidantes “in recent days” that the Democrat President should’ve stayed in the race and could’ve won a second term, The Washington Post reported, citing multiple anonymous sources.
Instead, the 82-year-old caved to pressure from his fellow Democrat elites to drop out of the race in July because of poor poll numbers and his horrible June 27 debate performance.
During the debate with Donald Trump, Biden gave incoherent answers and repeatedly stumbled over his words.
Vice President Kamala Harris was installed to replace Biden on the top of the Democrat ticket, even though she never received a vote and was decisively defeated by Trump.
“Aides say the president has been careful not to place blame on Harris or her campaign,” the Post reported.
But Biden admitted during an August interview on CBS News Sunday Morning that Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) led the charge because Democrats in the House and Senate were worried that he would drag down their chances of being reelected.
And in September, he told The View that he was confident he would have defeated Trump.
But many Democrats blame Biden for Harris’ loss because of his insistence not to drop out sooner.
“Biden ran on the promise that he was going to be a transitional president, and in effect, have one term before handing it off to another generation,” Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) told The Washington Post.
“I think his running again broke that concept — the conceptual underpinning of the theory that he would end the Trump appeal; he would defeat Trumpism and enable a new era.”
Some of his closest advisers, without directly blaming Biden, do admit his old-school governing style did not always work with modern politics.
“The president has been operating on a time horizon measured in decades, while the political cycle is measured in four years,” Jake Sullivan, Biden’s national security adviser, told the Post.
In recent weeks Biden has admitted to some of the many gaffes he’s made in office, including that he “screwed up” during the debate and was “stupid” for not getting credit by putting his name on pandemic relief checks his administration sent out in 2021.
And Biden and his aides have now also admitted he could have done a better job lifting Americans’ spirits during COVID.
The Washington Post also reported Biden has been telling confidantes he shouldn’t have picked Merrick Garland as attorney general and whined that the former U.S. appeals court judge was too aggressive in prosecuting his son Hunter.
And reportedly Garland was too slow for Biden in prosecuting Trump over the January 6 demonstrations – charges that were ultimately dismissed.
Despite all of Biden’s whining and complaining, it is laughable to think he would have fared any better against Donald Trump.