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Biden reportedly regrets ending re-election campaign and says he’d have defeated Trump
(www.theguardian.com)
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What a prick. No ownership of his candidacy-destroying debate performance. And thanks for taking so long to withdraw after you fucked that to the moon. Let him be the basis for age ceilings on presidential candidates.
He's a prick because he doesn't want Trump to be president? He's a prick because he wishes he did things differently?
I guess I'm a prick too then. I also don't want Trump to be president and have regrets in my life.
He's a prick because he thinks he should have been the one to defeat Trump. Even though he was not remotely suited to the task.
The only reason he ran at all is that he originally thought he had the best chance of winning. The debate and pressure after that changed his mind, but absolutely may have been wrong. After all, there were people on election day googling "did biden drop out?" One can certainly question how much the debate would have mattered.
But in the end, I generally agree with the below comment, that the election was always going to come down to the economy. It wasn't good enough for people that we handled inflation better than other Western countries. It didn't matter that Trump caused a lot of the inflation with the PPP (Paycheck Protection Program) and the GOP's refusal to have oversight. The only thing that mattered was that people were mad and wanted change. They couldn't figure out who to be mad at, and just chose the current people in charge. As a populace, we're not smart enough to understand deeper than that, and we just keep flipping the switch back and forth hoping it works, in spite of the fact that the biggest reason we don't go anywhere is that we keep flipping the switch back and forth.
I think the whole premise is wrong. It's becoming clearer that the reason he insisted on running (despite much internal push-back) was to hold onto power for himself. It had less to do with the stakes than it did with his self-serving desires. You'd have to be completely senile to think you could beat Trump after that debate performance and all of the context surrounding it. He's STILL insisting that he could have won. On what planet? Let's assume he knows what's at stake.
Is that easier for you than "he's a good person who tried his best and failed"?
Tried his best to... what? Drop out and let someone else more likely to win try for it? Doesn't seem like he wanted that. And nobody here thinks Biden would be worse than Trump. But that's not how American politics work. This is a reality show.
I'm very much not willing to say "he's a good person", whether or not he could have won again. Supports genocide, breaks strikes, and throws trans people under the bus after promising to protect them. He's an evil shitty person, whose interests sometimes aligned with helping the general public.
It sure is easier to sit on the sidelines than it is to actually lead. He absolutely wasn't perfect, but I absolutely believe he tried to represent the American people to the best of his ability.
Like Biden!
Also he literally stepped down and let someone else try based on feedback.
He was willing enough to listen to other people despite his doubts.
And now he's calling backsies on that.
Exactly. He made a choice and should stand by it.
He's whining about what 'could' have been instead of looking at what should have been (had he chosen to back out earlier or, even better, allowed someone else to run in the first fucking place).
I promise you that you don't have shortfalls like he does in magnitude. And at least you own up to them.