In one of his final interviews as president, Joe Biden offered up an unlikely alternative history that, yes, he could have beaten Donald Trump again.
President Joe Biden believes he could have won the 2024 election if he had decided to stay in the race, he told USA Today in a wide-ranging interview. "It's presumptuous to say that, but I think yes," he told the newspaper during a nearly hourlong interview on Sunday.
Polls showed Biden falling behind Trump before he stepped aside, and that he lost ground after a shaky debate performance in June.
Democrats ousted Biden as presumptive nominee in a July coup following his disastrous June 27 debate against Trump.
Trump's approval plummeted after the January 6, 2021, riot, but Biden's is on track to be lower when he leaves office.
In public, Trump has decried the state of the nation as "a disaster" and "a mess." But at their private meeting, Trump praised him, Biden said. "He was very complimentary about some of the economic things I had done. And he talked about − he thought I was leaving with a good record."
Biden and Harris campaign battleground director Dan Kanninen said Wednesday that President Biden being on the presidential ticket wouldn’t have changed the outcome of the 2024 election. “I think
Ex-FBI informant Alexander Smirnov got six years in prison after pleading guilty to lying that Joe and Hunter Biden accepted $10 million in bribes.
When asked if his health would have held up to four more years of the presidency, Biden said "Who the hell knows?"