Ex-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says Biden 'should not have run' for reelection
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Source: Washington Times
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigiegs opinion on whether his former boss, President Joseph R. Biden, should have run for re-election has shifted from maybe to an outright no.
He should not have run, Mr. Buttigieg said Sunday on NBCs Meet the Press. And if he had made that decision sooner, we might have been better off.
Mr. Buttigieg is considering a 2028 presidential run, and the question of whether Mr. Biden should have sought re-election has become a litmus test in the early jockeying for position among the possible Democratic contenders.
In her new memoir, 107 Days, former Vice President Kamala Harris, who replaced Mr. Biden atop the Democratic ticket after his disastrous Atlanta debate performance, added more fuel to the fire, describing Mr. Bidens re-election push as reckless.
Read more: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/14/pete-buttigieg-ex-transportation-secretary-president-biden-run/

choie
(6,056 posts)marble falls
(68,424 posts)Keepthesoulalive
(1,784 posts)Aim at the enemy, not your foot.
Wicked Blue
(8,224 posts)I wish they would let him retire in peace. He was a great president.
totodeinhere
(13,667 posts)would have had as better chance to defeat the scumbag we have in the Oval Office now.
VeryProgressive
(72 posts)And can we move on from this?
usonian
(20,365 posts)Times change.
People change.
Places change, and
Situations change.
Look back and you'll walk into a fire hydrant.
dweller
(27,079 posts)Stop flogging it
Makes you look bad Pete
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InAbLuEsTaTe
(25,415 posts)Blue Dotty
(156 posts)kacekwl
(8,563 posts)but I really don't want to hear this shit anymore.
Bristlecone
(10,866 posts)Even after the debate fiasco. On every channel.
Its so easy to armchair quarterback at this stage.
Hayabusa
(2,138 posts)is that all of them are made from hindsight.
Escape
(283 posts)Biden was a great president and should have done everything in his power to help us elect another great Democratic president in 2024.
He had no chance of winning re-election--even against the worst Republican candidate in history.
Lasher
(29,168 posts)The Washington Times is not an appropriate LBN Forum source.