Biden still regrets dropping out of 2024 presidential race, thinks he could have beaten Trump: report
President Joe Biden reportedly still regrets withdrawing from the 2024 presidential race last summer as pressure from Democrats mounted to step down.
The president has recently told people he still believes he can beat Trump in the November election, despite his poor performance at the June debate and low approval ratings, the Washington Post reported, citing people familiar with the matter. He dropped out of the race.
After the June 27 debate, more and more Democrats began calling daily for him to withdraw so that someone else could run in his place.
The president also found much of his own funding drying up last summer as donors began to doubt his chances of defeating Trump.
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President Biden speaks at the Department of the Interior’s 2024 White House Tribal Nations Summit in Washington, D.C., Dec. 9 (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
Biden dropped out of the race on July 21 and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, leaving just over three months to campaign before the election.
Trump defeated Harris by 2.2 million votes.
Biden has been careful not to blame Harris while insisting to aides that he could have won, the Washington Post reported.
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President-elect Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris by 2.2 million votes. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
Even with the withdrawal, Biden still believes he can defeat Trump – whom he defeated in his first term in 2020, according to a September report by The New York Times.
Rep. James Clyburn might disagree.
Clyburn, who met with Biden earlier this year, told The Washington Post that he told the president, “Your style is not a good fit for the environment we’re in right now,” speaking of style versus substance.
“There’s an answer to how to govern right now so that America can be successful in the long term, and there’s probably an answer to how to govern in the short term in the midterms and presidential elections,” Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan told The Washington Post. The president did He gave a different answer and chose to do things that would truly put the United States in a position of strength.
Biden has been careful not to accuse Harris while insisting to aides that he could have won. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
According to the Washington Post, while acknowledging other mistakes, including his debate performance, Biden also said he regretted choosing Merrick Garland as attorney general.
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Biden, whose aides believe Garland will be the consensus pick, has said privately that he believed Garland was too slow to move forward in prosecuting Trump, while also claiming the prosecution of his son Hunter was too harsh.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the White House for comment.
