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.

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.

  • @Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Who is the only person who beat Trump?

    Edit: Says a lot about a person who downvotes a question because they don’t like the obvious answer.

      • @Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
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        13 months ago

        Wrong. Try again. I’ll help. Obama served two terms. Then Hillary didn’t beat Trump. Then Biden beat Trump. Then Harris lost to Trump. Just say’in

        • Verdant Banana
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          3 months ago

          Hilary lost same as Harris because Obama ended up doing nothing to help the citizens and here we are now

          • @Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
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            Doesn’t matter what your formulation is. Fact remains that Biden is the only one who defeated Trump. BTW, if what you say is true, why would that fact exist? Biden was Obamas VP.

      • @Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
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        13 months ago

        Again, the point is that he is the only one who beat Trump. You can form as many reasons for him dropping out and I’ll probably agree with most of them, but that fact remains.