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Well, they figured, it worked in 2020, let's run it back!
Willful ignorance, or more likely "Shit, we don't have anyone on the bench"
A growing number of Democrats are publicly second-guessing their party’s handling of the last election, acknowledging that President Joe Biden’s delayed withdrawal was damaging and in some cases conceding they were too quick to dismiss questions about his age and mental acuity.
The criticism, and self-criticism, comes as a new book — “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again” by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson — blames Democrats’ defeat in large part on Biden’s aides who, it asserts, hid the extent of his decline.
The former president and his supporters forcefully reject that notion. But the renewed questions, along with Biden’s public comments responding to those claims, are sending shivers through a Democratic Party still traumatized by November’s loss to Donald Trump.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-California), an outspoken supporter of Biden before he ended his reelection campaign last summer, acknowledged in a statement to The Washington Post on Wednesday that he had been mistaken in backing the former president’s reelection.
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“In my few interactions at public events, I found him coherent and proud of his record, but it is now painfully obvious he should not have run,” Khanna said. “We should have had an open primary. We must acknowledge this truth to regain trust with the American people.”
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear — a potential Democratic presidential candidate in 2028 — said in an interview Wednesday that it would have helped the party if Biden had ended his reelection bid earlier than July. “In retrospect, if the president was going to drop out, dropping out earlier would have given any candidate a little more time,” Beshear said.
He suggested, too, that Democrats would have had a better chance if their nominee, then-Vice President Kamala Harris, had drawn clear distinctions with Biden. “It would also have taken a campaign willing to break with the president on certain issues,” Beshear said.
The flare-up comes at a particularly inconvenient time for Democrats, who believe the political tides are beginning to shift their way after the onslaught of Trump’s first few months. Democratic leaders are now seeking to focus on a Republican spending bill, which they say will slash Medicaid, and on the potential economic chaos unleashed by Trump’s tariffs.
Biden, they note, left office four months ago, was not the party’s candidate in 2024 and will presumably never run again. Trump, in contrast, has only begun a four-year term that Democrats say is already causing irreparable damage.
WaPo
Willful ignorance, or more likely "Shit, we don't have anyone on the bench"
A growing number of Democrats are publicly second-guessing their party’s handling of the last election, acknowledging that President Joe Biden’s delayed withdrawal was damaging and in some cases conceding they were too quick to dismiss questions about his age and mental acuity.
The criticism, and self-criticism, comes as a new book — “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again” by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson — blames Democrats’ defeat in large part on Biden’s aides who, it asserts, hid the extent of his decline.
The former president and his supporters forcefully reject that notion. But the renewed questions, along with Biden’s public comments responding to those claims, are sending shivers through a Democratic Party still traumatized by November’s loss to Donald Trump.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-California), an outspoken supporter of Biden before he ended his reelection campaign last summer, acknowledged in a statement to The Washington Post on Wednesday that he had been mistaken in backing the former president’s reelection.
Follow Trump’s second term
“In my few interactions at public events, I found him coherent and proud of his record, but it is now painfully obvious he should not have run,” Khanna said. “We should have had an open primary. We must acknowledge this truth to regain trust with the American people.”
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear — a potential Democratic presidential candidate in 2028 — said in an interview Wednesday that it would have helped the party if Biden had ended his reelection bid earlier than July. “In retrospect, if the president was going to drop out, dropping out earlier would have given any candidate a little more time,” Beshear said.
He suggested, too, that Democrats would have had a better chance if their nominee, then-Vice President Kamala Harris, had drawn clear distinctions with Biden. “It would also have taken a campaign willing to break with the president on certain issues,” Beshear said.
The flare-up comes at a particularly inconvenient time for Democrats, who believe the political tides are beginning to shift their way after the onslaught of Trump’s first few months. Democratic leaders are now seeking to focus on a Republican spending bill, which they say will slash Medicaid, and on the potential economic chaos unleashed by Trump’s tariffs.
Biden, they note, left office four months ago, was not the party’s candidate in 2024 and will presumably never run again. Trump, in contrast, has only begun a four-year term that Democrats say is already causing irreparable damage.
WaPo
