Democrats should blame themselves, not Biden, for Harris’s loss

Published November 7, 2024 1:59pm ET



Democrats are publicly and privately blaming President Joe Biden for Vice President Kamala Harris’s election loss. They should be blaming themselves.

Biden is being blamed because other Democrats think he should have dropped out sooner so that Harris could have had more time to introduce herself to voters. While it is undoubtedly true that Biden’s selfish lifelong pursuit of presidential power made this election unwinnable for Democrats, there is a litany of problems with blaming him and him alone for the predicament in which the party found itself.

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