Biden regrets leaving presidential race, thinks he could’ve beaten Trump: report

And Garland was apparently too slow for Biden in prosecuting Trump over the Jan. 6 riots – charges that were ultimately dismissed.

“Biden ran on the promise that he was going to be a transitional president, and in effect, have one term before handing it off to another generation,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) told The Washington Post.

Many Democrats blame Harris’ loss on Biden’s insistence not to drop out sooner.

“I think his running again broke that concept — the conceptual underpinning of the theory that he would end the Trump appeal; he would defeat Trumpism and enable a new era.”

“Aides say the president has been careful not to place blame on Harris or her campaign,” the outlet reported.

Some of his closest advisers, without faulting Biden, concede his old-school governing style did not always mesh with modern politics.

Biden in recent weeks has admitted to some of the myriad of gaffes he’s made in office, including that he “screwed up” during the debate and was “stupid” for not getting credit by putting his name on the pandemic relief checks his administration sent out in 2021 – as Trump did as president in 2020.

Biden and some of his aides have boasted to confidantes “in recent days” that the president should’ve stayed in the race and could’ve won a second term, the Washington Post reported Saturday citing multiple anonymous sources briefed on the conversations.

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