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Biden reportedly regrets ending re-election campaign and says he’d have defeated Trump (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] streetfestival@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago

I don't think the Dems' chances would have been better if Biden had stayed in the race. I think Biden won in 2020 because of COVID and BLM - and enough people didn't want Donvict leading the country through those issues that there was a surge of Dem votes. Come 2024 there wasn't that same anti-Donvict motivation required to beat him in the absence of a Democratic candidate who works for the people rather than the Democratic establishment. Also, the corporate media started kissing the ring and basically declared Donvict the winner after the first debate