President also regrets picking Merrick Garland for attorney general, as he was slow to prosecute Trump for January 6

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.

  • @[email protected]English
    1•7 days ago

    Stacked the deck on messaging and support but that doesn’t impact votes directly. Even trying to hurt his funding didn’t work: he out raised and outspent Clinton. So I’m curious what they mean “they haven’t held a fair primary in a long time.” If it’s “the party leans in to their favorites“ then I don’t really see the revelation here because that has been the case of all parties forever. Do you think the libertarian party has a fair primary? The problem is this discussion is almost always imply there was some sort of actual thumb on the scale or potentially even cheating of some sort, invariably super delegates come up even though superdelegates have never shifted the course of the primary for the Democrats ever (and the rules were changed after people freaked out about it in 2016).

    All of this is to say “the Democrats have not held a fair primary in a long time“ is a pretty big statement that implies a lot of things, and for some reason I’m getting all kinds of responses that don’t even relate to the primary, definitely not a straight answer. I’ve got people talking about how don’t like first past the post, the two party system, etc. but no assessment of that initial claim I raised my eyebrow at. It feels like it shouldn’t be this difficult to zero in on.

    Once again I would like somebody to explain to me what meant by “they have not held a fair primary in a long time”? It’s too broad and sinister sounding currently to just be “they have a favorite and message in their favor.”

    • @[email protected]
      1•6 days ago

      This is all sounding a little delusional and honestly blind. Several factors have been pointed out to you, you’re aware of some of it and supposedly followed along. The very statement of “they have a favorite and message in their favor” is a direct conflict to having a “fair primary”.