Biden nonetheless regrets dropping out of 2024 presidential race, believes he may have overwhelmed Trump: report

President Biden nonetheless regrets dropping out of the 2024 presidential race final summer season after mounting stress from Democrats to step apart, based on a report. 

The president just lately advised folks that he nonetheless believes he may have overwhelmed Trump within the November election, regardless of his tough debate efficiency in June and his low approval numbers that compelled him to depart the race, based on the Washington Submit, citing individuals conversant in the conversations. 

Following the June 27 debate, increasingly more Democrats started to name for him to drop out day by day, so one other individual may run in his place. 

The president additionally noticed a lot of his funding dry up final summer season as donors started to doubt his probabilities of beating Trump. 

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President Biden speaks on the 2024 White Home Tribal Nations Summit on the Division of the Inside, Dec. 9, in Washington, D.C. (AP Picture/Susan Walsh, File)

Biden left the race on July 21, and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, who had simply over three months to marketing campaign earlier than the election. 

Trump beat Harris by 2.2 million votes. 

Biden has been cautious to not blame Harris whereas insisting to aides that he may have received, the Submit reported. 

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President-elect Trump beat Vice President Kamala Harris by 2.2 million votes.  (Saul Loeb/AFP by way of Getty Photos)

Even when he dropped out, Biden nonetheless believed he may beat Trump – whom he defeated for his first time period in 2020, based on the New York Instances in September.

Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., could disagree. 

Clyburn, who met with Biden earlier this yr, advised the Submit that he had advised the president, “Your fashion doesn’t lend itself nicely to the atmosphere we’re at the moment in,” whereas talking of favor versus substance. 

Biden nationwide safety advisor Jake Sullivan advised the Submit: “The way to govern at this second to set the U.S. up for long-term success has one reply, and learn how to govern to cope with midterm and presidential elections within the very short-term might need a special reply. The president went with doing the issues that basically put America in a robust place.”

Biden has been cautious to not blame Harris whereas insisting to aides that he may have received.  (AP Picture/Susan Walsh)

Amongst acknowledgments of different errors – together with his debate efficiency – Biden has additionally stated that he regrets choosing Merrick Garland as lawyer normal, the Submit reported. 

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Satisfied to take action by aides who stated that Garland could be a consensus decide, Biden has privately stated that he feels Garland moved too slowly on prosecuting Trump, whereas additionally claiming his son Hunter had been prosecuted too aggressively.

Fox Information Digital has reached out to the White Home for remark.