In a rare public address, former president said US is experiencing ‘dark days’ and urged Americans to vote
Joe Biden has warned that his presidential successor, Donald Trump, will attempt to “steal” the midterm elections, in a rare public address.
Speaking in South Carolina, where he was being honored for his lifetime achievement in politics, Biden also asserted that the US is experiencing “dark days”, in a speech made hours before the Trump administration launched attacks on Iran.
Reprising a line from the 2020 campaign that saw him defeat Trump and end Trump’s first presidency, Biden told the crowd at the Columbia Museum of Art on Friday that the “battle for the soul of this nation is one that’s never really over”. He simultaneously criticized Trump’s plan to introduce potentially prohibitive voting requirements ahead of the midterms.
Personally I blame the Democrats losing their nerve after Biden’s debate performance. And the lack of a serious primary if Biden’s age was going to be an issue.
I count myself as one of those Democrats, and no, it wasn’t a matter of “losing my nerve”, that performance was just that bad. In 2020 you could tell he was an old man, but he still had it. 2024 Biden was a marked deterioration.
The real blame is on Biden for not realizing he simply didn’t have it anymore, and for the rest of the party for not convincing him to stick to his one-term promise in the first place. If we had a full Primary we may or may not have had Harris as the candidate, but whoever won would have been in a much better position.
So you actually wanted the Democrats to lose worse than they did?
Uh, part number two?