In case there was any mystery left to the Democrats’ relay race to losing the 2024 presidential election, Joe Biden has explained it all.
Did he, asked the BBC’s Nick Robinson, just perhaps … drop out too late?
“What happened was,” replied the old pol, “what we had set out to do, no one thought we could do, and [had] become so successful in our agenda that [it] was hard to say ‘now I’m gonna stop now.’”
Well, he said something like that. If you want to talk about hard-to-do things, try transcribing 2025-year Biden.
“I meant what I said when I started,” Biden goes on, and after a word-stumble salad, goes on further, “‘I’m preparing to hand this to the next generation.’ The transition government. But … it … moved so quickly that it made it difficult to walk away.
“It was a hard decision.”
Regrets then?
“No, I think it was the right decision.”
Well, that clears it all up.
One reply on ““So Successful””
Biden was selected as a place-holder. But Harris wouldn’t stay on-script and Trump refused to collapse. So Biden stayed in the White House to the end of his term, and a candidate until it was he who collapsed, and very publicly.
The endorsement of Harris on Biden’s X account was an act of spite. But the policies and programmes of the Biden Administration had provoked so much distress that the very strongest plausible Democratic nominee might have been defeated by Trump or by DeSantis.