The Democrats are in the beginning stages of a civil war over President-elect Donald J. Trump’s crushing defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris. A senior Harri-Walz campaign official is trying to pin the blame on President Joe Biden, saying he “will hold a lot of blame for” the defeat and adding, “And frankly, he should.”
Biden was largely sidelined by the Harris-Walz campaign after being forced out of the race by Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and other Democrat powerbrokers. However, a late intervention that saw Biden label Trump’s tens of millions of voters “garbage”—exacerbated by a failed attempt by his staff to doctor the official transcript recording the smear—went viral in the final days of the campaign. Trump quickly capitalized, arranging a garbage truck campaign stop and attending a high-profile rally dressed as a garbage man.
Some in the Democratic Party are complaining Biden, 81, stayed in the presidential race too long and hid his diminished cognitive condition from the party. “Why did Joe Biden hold on for as long as he did?” demanded one donor, adding: “He should have not concealed his [health issues] and dropped out a lot sooner.”
