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Posted on 05/08/2025 7:16:00 AM PDT by Red Badger
Former President Joe Biden claimed in an interview broadcast Wednesday that it was difficult for him to drop out of the 2024 presidential election because his single term in office was a great success.
Biden told BBC in his first broadcast interview since exiting the White House that his administration was “so successful on our agenda,” adding that it was a “hard decision” for him to step down from the presidential race. He added that he does not think “it would have mattered” if he had abandoned his reelection bid at an earlier time.
“Things moved so quickly that it made it difficult to walk away,” Biden said. “And it was a hard decision. I think it was the right decision. I think that… it was just a difficult decision.”
Biden claimed that the Democrats had a “good candidate” in the 2024 presidential election, in reference to his Vice President Kamala Harris, who replaced him on the Democratic ticket after he dropped out of the race in July 2024 following a disastrous presidential debate performance.
President Donald Trump soundly defeated Harris in the general election, winning the popular vote and sweeping all seven battleground states.
“She [Harris] was fully funded,” Biden told the outlet. “Um, and what happened was, I had become what we set out to do, no one thought we could do and become so successful. Our agenda was hard to say, now I’m going to stop now. I meant what I said when I started, that I think it’s, I’m prepared to hand this to the next generation, the transition government.”
In reference to Trump’s time in the White House, Biden told BBC, “I’ll let history judge that… I don’t see anything that was triumphant.”
The former president also defended his economy during the interview, saying it was “growing … the stock market was way up … we were expanding our influence around the world.”
Biden notably oversaw a spate of economic hurdles during his sole term, including skyrocketing inflation, which peaked at 9.1% in June 2022 and left Americans grappling with high prices. Relatedly, energy prices rose significantly during Biden’s term as the administration prioritized reducing domestic oil and gas extraction while leading a massive push to subsidize a variety of green energy projects.
The economy was viewed as one of the most important issues for voters ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
The Biden administration withdrew U.S. military forces from Afghanistan in August 2021, in what was broadly viewed as a disastrous operation. On Aug. 26, 2021, days after the U.S. military began to withdraw from the country, an ISIS-K member detonated a suicide bomb at the Kabul International Airport in Afghanistan, killing 13 U.S. military service members and 160 civilians.
Biden also led a massive push to embed diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs in the federal government during his sole term, despite many of these efforts being viewed as unpopular. A The Economist/YouGov poll published in January found that 45% of voters approved of ending DEI programs in schools and the government, while just 40% disapproved.
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/sarc
Dream fantastically on.
Then the interview ended and biden wandered off into the nearest hedgerow.
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It was. They effectively finished off the country. The MILLION MAN ARMY here can do it now, or the turd world invasion will 10 years from now.
It irks me to know that when this loser assumes room temperature, we will have to fly the flags at half-mast. Same for Soetero.
As fleecing operations go, it was outstanding.
Being of Irish Catholic people, I understand Wales, four day funerals and grieving as much as anyone but these people are done. They’re in the past they are ex parrots
Can we be done with them?
Watch the View...should be some fun drugged-up biden.
He’s desperate for money as everything has dried up, unless they can still sell Hunter’s finger-paintings.
Yeah Joe…..just a legend in your own mind……
Delusional. He just believed whatever the people actually running things told him.
He is 100% correct. He gave the leftists everything they asked for, and yet they forced him out.
“Biden told the outlet. “Um, and what happened was, I had become what we set out to do, no one thought we could do and become so successful.” What are you talking about Joe?
I think it’s pretty funny that so many on the left thing they can just speak things into truth. A sure trademark of a narcissist.
Why the surprise? That TWOT was totally unaware of anything going on in the world — which is why everything he did was illegal and all orders out of the WHouse illegitimate. He was not in charge.
Whoever was in charge was/is a traitor.
Keep deluding yourself, Joe. You were a total failure but if it makes you feel good then tell yourself a story and believe it.
Someone made this statement for Joe, he doesn’t talk much until his pants get wet or when it is ice cream time.
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