Well, well, well, if this isn’t an example of consequences created by one’s own actions.
President Biden created a team around him that eventually decided it was time for him to be benched.
The reason?
Biden explained his decision to withdraw from the presidential race during a Sunday interview with CBS News.
“A number of my Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate thought that I was going to hurt them in the races. And I was concerned if I stayed in the race, that would be the topic, you’d be interviewing me about why did Nancy Pelosi say -why did – and I thought it’d be a real distraction,” said Biden to CBS News’ Bob Costa.
Here is more from CBS News about what Biden had to say:
Biden announced at the end of July that he would be bowing out of the presidential race and quickly endorsed Vice President Harris. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Chuck Schumer and other Democrats reportedly called on Biden to drop out in private in the weeks following his first debate with Donald Trump.
“The polls we had showed that it was a neck-and-neck race, it would have been down to the wire,” Biden added.
Pelosi recently revealed that she and Biden have not spoken since he dropped out of the race.
The former House speaker also continues to deny she told the president to drop out. She told reporters during a recent interview that the president didn’t have a path to victory.
“Now I was really asking for a better campaign. We did not have a campaign that was on the path to victory. Members knew that in their districts,” Pelosi told reporters.
“When I ran the first time I thought of myself as being a transition president. I can’t even say how old I am. It’s hard for me to get out of my mouth. And but things got moving so quickly, it didn’t happen. And the combination was that I thought it was a critical issue for me still, it’s not a joke, maintaining this democracy,” Biden said during the interview with Costa.