Buttigieg says ‘we might have been better off’ if Biden dropped reelection bid sooner

Published September 14, 2025 4:09pm ET



Former Transport Secretary Pete Buttigieg said on Sunday that former President Joe Biden should not have run for reelection in 2024. 

Buttigieg agreed with the allegations in former Vice President Kamala Harris’s new book, 107 Days, where she writes, “It’s Joe and Jill’s decision. We all said that like a mantra as if we’d all been hypnotized. Was it grace and recklessness? In retrospect, I think it was recklessness.”

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