Instead of handing control of the White House to a new generation of Democratic leaders, Joe Biden will now suffer the ignominy of watching Donald Trump once again take the reins of power.
Joe Biden may have exited the presidential race in favour of Kamala Harris but did the delay cost the Democratic party?In recent years, Joe Biden could barely bring himself to call Trump by name.
He'd faced similar questions in 2020 but addressed them in part by promising to be a "transitional president", one who would pass the torch to the next generation. He just needed to beat Trump first.He retained an iron grip on the Republican base despite his role in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, being charged with dozens of criminal counts, being found liable for sexual assault and being guilty of fraud.
It worked. There was no real primary contest. Relatively niche candidates put their hands up, but none of the stars of the party dared.Joe Biden had been bedevilled by low approval ratings for most of his term. He'd been dealt a difficult hand. His most common interactions with the press were brief remarks he would make to shouted questions either at the end of meetings with world leaders or on his way to travel on Air Force One or Marine One.There, a halting and seemingly confused president badly stumbled.
It meant that the woman who had famously flamed out of the 2020 Democratic primary contests before a single vote had been cast, after a badly mismanaged campaign and failing to earn support, became the unopposed standard-bearer for the party in 2024.Joe Biden, who walked the halls of power for half a century, built a career on relationships. But in the end, it was his decision alone to do something no president had done before.
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