Return of Biden, Harris snags Democrats’ push to turn the page on 2024

The Washington Post ^ | July 31, 2025 6:20 p.m. EDT | Hannah Knowles and Maeve Reston

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The party is hoping to move on from its losses and look to the future — but its central figures from the last election keep stepping back into the spotlight.

Former vice president Kamala Harris is promoting a book about her losing 2024 presidential campaign, leaving the door open to another White House bid in 2028 and building a group that would enable her to hit the trail for fellow Democrats in the midterms.

Former president Joe Biden is set to deliver a speech in Chicago Thursday night as campaign books, congressional hearings and occasional sparring with President Donald Trump have kept his tenure and questions about his health and acuity in the White House in the news.

And his son Hunter Biden has been settling scores on podcasts, lashing out at political consultants, influencers and actor George Clooney for criticizing his father — to the dismay of Democrats who believe the younger Biden’s legal troubles hurt them in 2024.

Democrats are eager to turn the page on their 2024 losses — but their central figures from the last election keep stepping back into the spotlight, complicating their efforts to forge a new identity. Many in the party are wary of elevating the people who led them to defeat in 2024 and exasperated to see the drama of that election repeatedly relitigated when they want to keep the focus on pushing back against Trump’s second-term agenda and identifying new leaders.

“The shadow of 2024 is long, and I think all perspectives in the mix believe we need something fresh,” said longtime Democratic consultant Donna Bojarsky. Many Democrats do not blame Harris for what went wrong last cycle, she said, “But nobody’s saying, let’s go back to 2024.”

Plenty of other Democrats are building their profiles and...

[ComputerGuy]

Elder Statesmen

[brownsfan]

Never underestimate the stupidity of the public. Only took 3 tries for the public to allow the installation of Biden.

[SunkenCiv]

This is just some PMS (Partisan Media Shilling) -- if the Demagogic Party really wanted to turn the page on 2024, it would have to admit to the criminal activity of much of the party (in and out of media) and help build the scaffolding for the mass hangings that should be coming to them.

[cymbeline]

“if the Demagogic Party really wanted to turn the page on 2024, it would have to admit to the criminal activity ...”

I think it will have to be a different “it”.

[lee martell]

One is desiccated, zombified Road Kill, but is the last one to realize it, the other is an annoying Hangnail, who just won’t go away, despite Dem Party attempts to simply ignore and endure the gnawing irritation.

[SunkenCiv]

(temporary tagline switch)

[Jacquerie]

Speaking of jock itch that until recently wouldn’t go away, I don’t recall recent Hildebeast public appearances.

Has she been on a Sunday yik-yak show these past two weeks?

[GOPJ]

The democrat party defined themselves as the party that lied for an old man with dementia - and a worthless press that played along.

They can’t run away from that truth.