This author and blogger has been a longtime fan and supporter of Joe Biden, going back decades!
Biden has had an historic Presidency, and has been listed as number 14 in Presidential rankings by the American Political Science Association.
Biden is a decent, compassionate leader, a model of what a President should be. He saved American democracy in winning the Presidency in 2020.
But sadly, when one looks back now at the Presidential Election Of 2024, it must be said that his ego helped to cause the Democratic Party defeat!
Being an advanced age, Biden should have announced after the midterms in 2022, that he would finish his term, but leave the future of the party to a primary contest of Democrats who wished to succeed him.
It is possible that Kamala Harris, who ran an heroic 107 day race, would have been the nominee in any case, but Biden allowed his ego to get in the way of what was best for the Democratic Party and the nation at large.
Biden is being “blamed” by many for his refusal to accept his age as a limit, and the realization that he was not the same person in 2023 and later that he was in 2020.
That reality will tar, somewhat, his reputation, which is highly regrettable.
It will not mar this author’s view of the 46th President, but history will record that it was a mistake for Biden to remain in the race when he should have announced his withdrawal.