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Many Democrats, including those in the media, have responded to President-elect Donald Trump’s victory by blaming President Joe Biden.
Take Dan Abrams, the owner of Mediaite. Speaking on his NewsNation show this Wednesday, he slammed Biden for running for reelection after having claimed during the 2020 presidential election that he’d be a one-term president.
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“President Biden, what were you thinking ever running for reelection?” he wondered aloud. “Remember he said he wouldn’t do it eight months before he won the 2020 election.”
“He was only gonna run for one term and transition the party in 2024 to new and younger leadership. And then, the 80-year-old man in April of last year announced he’d be running for reelection to, quote, ‘finish the job,’” Abrams added.
And then to make matters worse, he suddenly dropped out only months before the election — though in fairness, he did so only because of massive pressure from his own party.
“In other words, he left their party with three months and no primary to prepare,” Abrams continued. “And let’s be clear. If Biden had stayed in the race … he almost certainly would have done worse than Harris.”
“So for anyone suggesting that the Democrats lost because Biden dropped out, that is a fantasy. The issue is that Biden probably never should’ve run in the first place. And so tonight, we ask President Biden, what were you thinking?” he concluded.
Abrams isn’t alone in his gripes.
“He had no business running again,” Oskaloosa City Councilman Charlie Comfort, an Iowa Democrat, told the Washington Examiner. “I blame him for giving us another four years of Trump because he chose to be selfish and egotistical. His legacy is severely tarnished in my book.”
Ouch.
Democrats now beginning to blame Biden for stepping aside so late and leaving them with no option except Crazy Kamala
Don’t even try it. YOU propped up Biden for years and gaslit us all before YOU ditched him at the last minute. This is not Biden’s fault, this is YOUR fault.
— Dr. Calum Miller (@DrCalumMiller) November 6, 2024
Even Vice President Kamala Harris’ own staff blame Biden.
“We ran the best campaign we could, considering Joe Biden was president,” one Harris aide told Politico. “Joe Biden is the singular reason Kamala Harris and Democrats lost tonight.”
Another Harris Aide said that the president should have dropped out much earlier — as in before the Democrat primary elections.
“Biden will hold a lot of blame for it,” a senior Harris aide added in a statement to CNN. “And frankly, he should.”
Because he dropped out so late, the official said, the Democrat Party never got a chance to hold a primary and determine whether Harris was indeed the best candidate for the job. Nor did the party have a chance to put together a real election campaign.
Ultimately, the official asserted, Harris’ last-minute campaign was nothing but “the Biden campaign with Harris at the top of the ticket.”
“It was the Biden campaign with new posters,” the official explained.
Costas Panagopoulos, a political science professor at Northeastern University, appears to agree with the critics.
“It’s conceivable that an earlier departure from the race, or a decision not to run for reelection in the first place, would have enabled a real primary process to unfold and a longer period to campaign,” he told the Examiner.
“In the end, concerns about the economy, inflation, and immigration would have made it difficult for any Democrat in 2024, but the race could have been closer than it ultimately was,” he added.
But not everybody agrees that Biden was the reason Democrats failed on Tuesday.
“It was a combination of a global backlash against incumbents, messaging that didn’t resonate, and underestimating the movement that Trump created,” Christopher Hahn, a former Democrat consultant, told the Examiner. “Trump did a better job of hanging voters anxieties on Harris than she did at painting him as an extremist.”
What about Biden — who does he blame? He reportedly blames former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
“The blame game went into overdrive last night, as Biden confidantes told senior White House reporters they hold the former Speaker of the House responsible for him being pushed out of the race,” the Daily Mail reported Thursday morning.
“‘Bidenworld’ sources claim that not only should the president have stayed in the race but that he would have won the white working-class voters who Harris largely ceded to Donald Trump,” the report continued.
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