Millions of voters who backed Joe Biden in 2020 apparently did not support Vice President Kamala Harris in this year's election. Harris suffered a heavy loss to Donald Trump in the 2024 race, with the Republican on course to win the popular vote and sweep all seven of the key swing states.
The 46th President is one of the best one-term leaders in U.S. history. But Trump's reelection hangs over everything Biden achieved.
The former House speakeri said there could have been an "open primary" had President Biden stepped aside earlier.
Joe Biden doomed Kamala Harris' presidential campaign when he opted to run for a second term, podcaster and former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau argued.
The Democratic Party now finds itself grappling with how it lost so definitively, and how it so thoroughly misunderstood the American electorate.
Such a meeting is traditional, but Trump, a Republican, did not host Biden, a Democrat, for a sit-down after the 2020 election.
U.S. President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump will meet on Wednesday at the White House on Biden's invitation, a White House spokesperson said on Saturday.
The powerful former speaker of the House suggested the Democrats could have fared better if the president stood down as candidate sooner.
President-elect Donald Trump has won Arizona, NBC News projects, putting its 11 electoral votes in his column after he narrowly lost the state to President Joe Biden in 2020.
Joe Biden had mapped out a game plan for his final months as president. Then a series of cascading crises intruded.