On Friday, talking from the Roosevelt Room, Biden mentioned he did not assume that dropping out of the presidential race over the summer time helped deliver the election to Trump.
President Joe Biden will deliver a farewell tackle to the nation Wednesday from the Oval Office, 5 days earlier than President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in. The president’s remarks at 8 pm Eastern are set to be his final vital alternative to converse to Americans and the world earlier than he leaves workplace at midday on January 20. They will observe a speech Monday on the State Department, the place he’ll deliver an tackle targeted on his overseas coverage legacy.
On Friday, talking from the Roosevelt Room, Biden mentioned he did not assume that dropping out of the presidential race over the summer time helped deliver the election to Trump. Biden stepped apart amid huge strain from Democrats following a disastrous debate efficiency, and Kamala Harris ran in his place with just some months to set up a marketing campaign that usually is years within the making.
“I think I would have beaten Trump, and I think that Kamala could have — would have beaten Trump,” he mentioned. “I thought it was important to unify the party. Even though I thought I could win again, I thought it was better to unify the party.”
Biden mentioned he did not need to trigger a divided get together to lose an election, including: “That’s why I stepped aside. But I was confident she could win.” Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre informed reporters earlier Friday that Biden would replicate on his “50-plus years as a public official” in his speech Monday.
“He has some ideas on the longer term, not simply of the nation, however how this nation strikes ahead as a pacesetter when you concentrate on international occasions, essential international points, and definitely he’ll lay that out,” she mentioned.
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