Ex-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says Biden 'should not have run' for reelection [View all]
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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.
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