The Washington Post columnist Matt Bai criticized President Biden on Monday for hanging on to power too long, saying the president’s legacy will be that he “didn’t know when to leave.”
“After a lifetime of noble service, he will be remembered – like many of his generation – as a man who didn’t know when to go,” wrote Bai.
The president has fallen 2024 race in late July, about a month after a poor showing in a debate against President-elect Donald Trump in June. Vice President Kamala Harris took on the Democratic presidential campaign and ended up losing.
“By the time Biden took the stage for his debate with Trump in June, it was clear that history had been stolen by a dangerous delusion — a delusion shared and encouraged by his senior aides and even the journalists who followed him most closely,” he wrote. is Bai, after noting that Biden deserves credit for his legislative accomplishments.
Washington Post columnist Matt Bai said President Biden’s legacy will be that he “didn’t know when to leave.” (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Bai described what might have been Biden’s thought process in the final year of his presidency and said he did not want to cede power.
“Then there was the vexed issue of who, exactly, would succeed him. After rallying around Vice President Kamala Harris in the tumultuous, racially charged summer of 2020, despite her rather poor record as a short-term presidential candidate, Democratic leaders and Biden’s own aides worried that she can’t win (of course, competitive primaries could have answered that question. but modern Democrats are terrified of any process that can’t orchestrate.),” Bai wrote.
The columnist also said that despite his incredible approval ratings, Biden thought he was the best option to beat Trump. After Harris lost, the president reportedly felt regret relegationhe still believed he would beat Trump.
“Even now, at the end of Biden’s term, it is impossible to look at him and think: here’s a guy who should have run for president again. Twenty years later, it will rank among the most blatantly stupid acts of denial ever engaged in by any party in power,” he continued.
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President Joe Biden speaks at a reception for new Democratic members of Congress in the State Dining Room of the White House, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Cenet)
“While [Gerald] Ford and [George H.W.] Bush each received a Profile in Courage Award from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Carter received a Nobel Prize, Biden, I’m afraid, will have to settle for a train station in Wilmington, Delaware, and a rest stop on Interstate 95,” he concluded. is Bai.
Just days after Harris’ loss, Bai called out president and his closest associates to preach the message: “You don’t really see what you think you see.”
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“Biden has always served his country with skill and integrity. I’m not sure we can say the same for Democratic associates and leaders who thought voters could be tricked into disbelieving their own experience,” he wrote in November. 8 column.
