Joe Biden regrets having pulled out of this year’s presidential race and believes he would have defeated Donald Trump in last month’s election – despite negative poll indications, White House sources have said.

The US president has reportedly also said he made a mistake in choosing Merrick Garland as attorney general – reflecting that Garland, a former US appeals court judge, was slow to prosecute Donald Trump for his role in the 6 January 2021 insurrection while presiding over a justice department that aggressively prosecuted Biden’s son Hunter.

Harris’s ascent to the top of the ticket led to a surge of enthusiasm and improved poll numbers but ultimately ended in a decisive electoral college and popular vote defeat.

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    She didn’t lose because shes a black woman, she lost because she was running the same campaign the old white man did.

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      She was dumber than a senile old man is why she lost. The dems needed fresh talent. They painted themselves in a corner this time.

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        How is that your response?

        The person you responded to didn’t advocate an opinion about who should be president, but rather why the Democratic candidate lost.

        By what fucked up process does that end up translating into you thinking that person was advocating for Trump?

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        Who said anything about Trump? This entire discussion is about how Democrats lost.

        Critique of one is not an automatic endorsement of the other.