President Joe Biden is in a strange position. For what is likely the second time in his life, Biden is staring at the end of his career. Close to a decade ago, he was passed over in favor of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Behind the scenes, his boss, President Barack Obama, and top political advisers anointed her the next leader of the Democratic Party. An epically bad decision, it turned out, because she went on to lose to Republican rival Donald Trump in a shattering upset.

Close to a month ago, Biden told the country he had accepted there was not a viable path to victory with him at the top of the party’s ticket in his looming rematch against Trump, his vanquished 2020 rival and the 2024 GOP nominee. Biden decided it was time to step aside, tapping Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him — an honor he felt his boss denied him in 2016.