Er ... who wants to tell him?
Has no one briefed Joe Biden on how the election turned out? He certainly knows that Donald Trump will bookend his single term as president; he hosted Trump a few weeks ago at the start of the transition. Also, he and his aides are doing everything except prying the Ds and Ts off the West Wing keyboards to handicap Trump's range of action before January 20.
Biden doesn't appear to appreciate just how badly Kamala Harris did in November, and just how badly he would have performed, either. At a rare White House presser where reporters were allowed to question the (p?)resident, Biden insisted that he didn't regret running for a second term, bombing so badly that he had to quit, and then making it impossible for Democrats to choose anyone but Harris.
Really?
JUST IN: President Biden says he could have and would have won the 2024 election, says Kamala Harris could have and would have won too.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 10, 2025
Someone should tell him that Kamala did in fact run and did not win.
"I would have beaten Trump, could have beaten Trump, and I think that… pic.twitter.com/7oOWeSJ2hs
REPORTER: Mr. President, do you regret your decision to run for reelection? Do you think that that made it easier for your predecessor to now become your successor?
BIDEN: I don’t think so. I think I would’ve beaten Trump, could’ve beaten Trump. And I think that Kamala could’ve beaten Trump, would’ve beaten Trump. It wasn’t about– I thought it was important to unify the party. And when the party was worried about whether or not I was going to be able to move, I thought, even though I thought I could win again, I thought it was better to unify the party. And I had– it was the greatest honor in my life to be president of the United States. But I didn’t want to be one who caused a party that wasn’t unified to lose an election. And that’s why I stepped aside. But I was confident she could win.
Even if you take this at face value, chalk it up to the lifetime of Biden's strategic political choices. However, Biden's insistence on "party unity" is nothing but a façade for his own desire to keep his grip on power. Political parties have primaries on a regular basis, and the point of those processes is not "unity" but to nominate a competent candidate to compete in the general election. Had Democrats conducted an honest primary, or even an honest open convention after Biden's withdrawal, they would have had a chance to nominate someone far more competent than either Biden or his handpicked flop -- and would have unified behind that candidate.
Biden -- or whoever is running him -- didn't want to walk away from power even with Biden clearly failing both politically and cognitively. That's why the Democrats conducted a mockery of a primary by rewriting the rules to prevent competition, which Biden now claims was "unity." And even after everything that's transpired, Biden still wants to pretend that his(?) decisions were somehow wise.
If there is a better way to demonstrate how incompetent Biden is, was, and pretty much always has been, I'd like to see it.
CNN's Harry Enten blasted Biden's similar claim earlier in the week that he could have beaten Trump. He was losing even before the June 27 presidential debate, after having lost the American electorate over the previous three-plus years:
Based on the polling data, I categorize Biden's statement that he could have beaten Trump as "flat out bonkers."
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) January 8, 2025
Biden was well behind Trump when he dropped out. Biden never led in all of 2024. And no incumbent president who was anywhere near as unpopular as Biden has ever won. pic.twitter.com/lGk9h8pygU
Indeed. But Biden will ride into the sundowning, er, sunset while fully encompassed by the delusions of his own adequacy.
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