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Polybius

(20,846 posts)
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 09:15 PM 12 hrs ago

Ex-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says Biden 'should not have run' for reelection

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Source: Washington Times

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s 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 NBC’s “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. Biden’s re-election push as reckless.

Read more: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/14/pete-buttigieg-ex-transportation-secretary-president-biden-run/

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Ex-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says Biden 'should not have run' for reelection (Original Post) Polybius 12 hrs ago OP
Is that REALLY what we should be focusing on at the moment, Mr. Buttigieg? choie 12 hrs ago #1
Let it go, Pete. Get into the now. marble falls 12 hrs ago #2
Not this crap again. Keepthesoulalive 12 hrs ago #3
Why on earth are people piling on President Biden? Wicked Blue 12 hrs ago #4
Maybe because they believe that if Biden had dropped out earlier Harris totodeinhere 12 hrs ago #8
He Didn't VeryProgressive 12 hrs ago #5
Woulda, coulda, shoulda are the road to defeat. Why? usonian 12 hrs ago #6
That horse is dead dweller 12 hrs ago #7
I still have a lot of respect for Mayor Pete, but sometimes he disappoints, as in this case. InAbLuEsTaTe 12 hrs ago #9
Hindsight ...Something something Blue Dotty 12 hrs ago #10
You know I love Pete kacekwl 11 hrs ago #11
He was one of the biggest advocates for Joe, pushing his candidacy Bristlecone 11 hrs ago #12
The thing about all of these recent statements Hayabusa 11 hrs ago #13
Agree with Pete 100%....... Escape 11 hrs ago #14
agreed samsingh 10 hrs ago #16
I support Pete samsingh 10 hrs ago #15
Locking for source. Lasher 10 hrs ago #17

choie

(6,056 posts)
1. Is that REALLY what we should be focusing on at the moment, Mr. Buttigieg?
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 09:16 PM
12 hrs ago

marble falls

(68,424 posts)
2. Let it go, Pete. Get into the now.
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 09:18 PM
12 hrs ago

Keepthesoulalive

(1,784 posts)
3. Not this crap again.
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 09:21 PM
12 hrs ago

Aim at the enemy, not your foot.

Wicked Blue

(8,224 posts)
4. Why on earth are people piling on President Biden?
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 09:22 PM
12 hrs ago

I wish they would let him retire in peace. He was a great president.

totodeinhere

(13,667 posts)
8. Maybe because they believe that if Biden had dropped out earlier Harris
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 09:45 PM
12 hrs ago

would have had as better chance to defeat the scumbag we have in the Oval Office now.

VeryProgressive

(72 posts)
5. He Didn't
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 09:27 PM
12 hrs ago

And can we move on from this?

usonian

(20,365 posts)
6. Woulda, coulda, shoulda are the road to defeat. Why?
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 09:41 PM
12 hrs ago

Times change.
People change.
Places change, and
Situations change.

Look back and you'll walk into a fire hydrant.

dweller

(27,079 posts)
7. That horse is dead
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 09:42 PM
12 hrs ago

Stop flogging it


Makes you look bad Pete




✌🏻

InAbLuEsTaTe

(25,415 posts)
9. I still have a lot of respect for Mayor Pete, but sometimes he disappoints, as in this case.
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 09:46 PM
12 hrs ago

Blue Dotty

(156 posts)
10. Hindsight ...Something something
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 09:49 PM
12 hrs ago


kacekwl

(8,563 posts)
11. You know I love Pete
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 10:01 PM
11 hrs ago

but I really don't want to hear this shit anymore.

Bristlecone

(10,866 posts)
12. He was one of the biggest advocates for Joe, pushing his candidacy
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 10:09 PM
11 hrs ago

Even after the debate fiasco. On every channel.

It’s so easy to armchair quarterback at this stage.

Hayabusa

(2,138 posts)
13. The thing about all of these recent statements
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 10:21 PM
11 hrs ago

is that all of them are made from hindsight.

Escape

(283 posts)
14. Agree with Pete 100%.......
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 10:35 PM
11 hrs ago

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.



samsingh

(18,162 posts)
16. agreed
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 11:13 PM
10 hrs ago

samsingh

(18,162 posts)
15. I support Pete
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 11:13 PM
10 hrs ago

Lasher

(29,168 posts)
17. Locking for source.
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 11:15 PM
10 hrs ago

The Washington Times is not an appropriate LBN Forum source.

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