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Apparently Joe Biden Regrets Leaving the Presidential Race.

The way they absolutely refuse to learn is incredible.

Lauren Elizabeth
3 min readDec 30, 2024
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The election season was an undeniable whirlwind.

Personally, I feel as though I should have known definitively that Donald Trump was going to win as soon as that first debate happened. Hindsight is always 20/20 of course, but it just felt as though the writing was on the wall at that point, right? The dynamics around that entire situation and the aftermath came to define the course of the election, and I don’t think anyone other than Joe Biden and his supporters would deny that.

Maybe that’s why he reportedly regrets dropping out.

Robert Tait with The Guardian writes:

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…

…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…

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Lauren Elizabeth
Lauren Elizabeth

Written by Lauren Elizabeth

Lauren is a writer & leftist with analysis on topics related to politics & policy. She can be reached at LaurenMartinchek@gmail.com or Twitter @xlauren_mx

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