CNN Reports Senior Harris Campaign Official Throwing Biden Under the Bus: He Holds ‘A Lot of Blame’
An unnamed senior Harris campaign official told CNN reporter MJ Lee that President Joe Biden holds “a lot of blame” for Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential election loss on Wednesday.
President-elect Donald Trump won the White House in a stunning political victory as votes were counted overnight. After gaining his first swing state of North Carolina he went on to also win Georgia and Pennsylvania. NewsNation partnered with Decision Desk and was the first network to call the race for Trump, with Fox News calling it shortly before 1:50 a.m. EST.
Harris’s campaign ran a 100-day sprint after Biden ended his bid in July after pressure from Democrats following a disastrous CNN debate against Trump.
Now, according to CNN, as Democrats pick through the wreckage of a devastating election night loss, some are pointing the finger at Biden.
Speaking on Monday to host Wolf Blitzer, Lee relayed what one senior Harris campaign official had told her:
Obviously there will be a lot of soul-searching and a lot of questions in the coming days about what, if anything, could Democrats and the Harris campaign have done differently.
One thing we are clearly already starting to see take place is finger-pointing and the blame game. A lot of that will be erected at President Biden… even coming from some folks inside the Harris campaign.
One senior official that I talked to said Biden will hold a lot of blame and, frankly, they said he should. One of the ways in which he is being blamed right now actually goes back to the simple decision of seeking a second term and reelection and the first place.
Retracing back over the events that led to Biden’s resignation from the race, Lee continued:
Remember back in 2020 when he was running, he initially said “I plan on being a transition and a bridge president.” Of course, he changed his mind ultimately and said “I am the only person that can defeat Donald Trump. I have more work to do.” And ended up seeking a second term…
Democrats are looking back on all of this and thinking about what about that parallel universe where Joe Biden had not sought a second term and there had been a full Democratic primary contest, where the party actually chose whoever they thought was going to be the strongest person to run a full campaign.
Again, one of many ways in which Democrats will be asking themselves tough questions, is that a lot of tough questions will be aimed at President Biden.
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