Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton still has beef with former President Joe Biden over his decision to seek reelection in 2024, and has no qualms letting the world know. Speaking during a public appearance in New York City on Monday night, Clinton told New Yorker editor-in-chief David Remnick, “He made a terrible mistake. He made a terrible mistake for himself, his legacy, and for the country. He had said that he would not run again. And counterfactual narratives are always a bit tricky.”
As her fellow Democrat Party members do, Clinton blamed Biden’s actions for President Donald Trump winning back the White House, suggesting that if Biden had announced earlier that he would not seek another term, the Democratic Party would have had a more competitive nomination process:
“But I believe if he had kept to that plan and said, in, say, the late summer of ’23, that he wasn’t going to run, that he was going to pass, you know, the torch to the next generation, we would have had a real contest. And very sadly, I believe whoever emerged from that contest, whether it was the vice president or a governor or a senator or anybody else, would have beaten Donald Trump.
So I think it was a terrible miscalculation on the part of President Biden. But once he didn’t move, and and did not, you know, admit that he had said he was going to step aside and then decided not to, and held on for as long as he did, we were in a terrible dilemma.”
Biden ultimately exited the 2024 presidential race in July following pressure to quit from his owner party after his first debate against Trump, during which is cognitive decline was overwhelmingly evident.