By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-29 01:08:50 | Updated at 2024-12-29 17:53:04
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Biden reportedly regrets ending re-election campaign and says he’d have defeated Trump
The Guardian ^ | 12/28/24 | Robert Tait
Posted on 12/28/2024 4:55:06 PM PST by Libloather
Joe Biden regrets having pulled out of this year’s presidential race and believes he would have defeated Donald Trump in last month’s election – despite negative poll indications, White House sources have said.
The US president has reportedly also said he made a mistake in choosing Merrick Garland as attorney general – reflecting that Garland, a former US appeals court judge, was slow to prosecute Donald Trump for his role in the 6 January 2021 insurrection while presiding over a justice department that aggressively prosecuted Biden’s son Hunter.
With just more than three weeks of his single-term presidency remaining, Biden’s reported rueful reflections are revealed in a Washington Post profile that contains the clearest signs yet that he thinks he erred in withdrawing his candidacy in July after a woeful debate performance against his rival for the White House, Trump, the previous month.
The president stepped aside – to be replaced as his party’s nominee by the US vice-president, Kamala Harris – after mounting pressure from fellow Democrats, who cited polling evidence that appeared to show him heading for a near-certain election drubbing from Trump, who was seeking a historic return to the White House as the Republicans’ nominee.
Harris’s ascent to the top of the ticket led to a surge of enthusiasm and improved poll numbers but ultimately ended in a decisive electoral college and popular vote defeat.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; History
KEYWORDS: brandon; campaign; election; horizontal
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Meds need to be adjusted. Again.
1 posted on 12/28/2024 4:55:06 PM PST by Libloather
To: Libloather
Isn’t Dr. Jill the Man of the Year?
2 posted on 12/28/2024 4:56:07 PM PST by Paladin2
To: Libloather
"I coulda been a contender."
3 posted on 12/28/2024 4:56:30 PM PST by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
To: Libloather
Meds won’t fix narcissism.
4 posted on 12/28/2024 4:56:36 PM PST by HollyB
To: Libloather
5 posted on 12/28/2024 4:57:27 PM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
To: Libloather
Joe, I know you’re demented, so you’re forgiven. You wouldn’t have beaten Trump. You’re a mental midget, even more now than you were in June.
6 posted on 12/28/2024 4:57:30 PM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
To: Libloather
Yeah, he’d have crushed Trump in the send debate! LOL
7 posted on 12/28/2024 4:57:34 PM PST by simpson96
To: Libloather
Biden will be the perfect Democratic candidate in 2028.
Go Joe Go!
8 posted on 12/28/2024 4:57:46 PM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
To: Libloather
9 posted on 12/28/2024 4:57:49 PM PST by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
To: FamiliarFace
Forgiven for thinking that you would have defeated Trump.
Not forgiven for everything else.
10 posted on 12/28/2024 4:58:15 PM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
To: Libloather
Sounds like Uncle Rico. “If only the coach would have put me in…”
To: simpson96
According to some hard core leftists Joe’s problem was just a minor stutter.
Give him some more meds and speech training and he will be ready to fight for the 2028 nomination.
12 posted on 12/28/2024 4:59:18 PM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
To: Paladin2
Right Joe. Your 2nd debate with Trump would have clinched it for you.
13 posted on 12/28/2024 5:00:40 PM PST by hflynn
To: cgbg
Yup- heard that “stutter” excuse for years.
14 posted on 12/28/2024 5:00:52 PM PST by God luvs America (6young 3.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
To: All
Shaddup and change your diaper, DUmbass!
15 posted on 12/28/2024 5:00:59 PM PST by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
To: crusty old prospector
That’s the first thing I thought of, Uncle Rico. Love it.
16 posted on 12/28/2024 5:01:32 PM PST by freefdny
To: Libloather
17 posted on 12/28/2024 5:02:49 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
To: HollyB
18 posted on 12/28/2024 5:02:58 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
To: cgbg
LOL. True. Joe could run again
To: Libloather
The Reaper can’t “harvest” this nasty, vindictive SOB soon enough.
FJB.
20 posted on 12/28/2024 5:04:01 PM PST by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created..." )
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