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(The Hill) — Former President Biden said Friday that helium does not person regrets successful deciding to tally for reelection successful 2024 and argued that different Democrats did not situation him successful the party’s superior due to the fact that they knew they would person lost.
Asked astir concerns from Democrats implicit whether helium should person stepped speech earlier, the erstwhile president brushed disconnected the criticism.
“Why didn’t they tally against maine then?” Biden told reporters connected Friday successful New Castle, Del. “Because I would’ve beaten them.”
Biden announced successful precocious April of 2023 that helium would tally again, but his reelection bid was marred with questions astir his precocious property and skepticism astir his quality to execute the duties of the president for different 4 years.
He withdrew from the contention connected July 21, 2024, little than a period aft a disastrous statement against the then-GOP statesmanlike nominee Donald Trump. The forum sparked worries astir Biden's property and intelligence acuity, arsenic helium seemingly had a hard clip answering questions oregon staying alert.
Former Vice President Harris became the party's nominee and yet ended up losing to Trump successful November.
Concerns astir Biden's intelligence fittingness reemerged earlier this month aft Axios leaked audio from his interrogation with peculiar counsel Robert Hur. The discussion, centered astir classified documents recovered astatine the erstwhile president's backstage residence from his clip arsenic vice president, shone a airy connected Biden's memory lapses.
The Trump medication aboriginal released the afloat audio. Hur successful his probe recovered that portion Biden "willfully" retained the documents, a assemblage would apt conscionable spot him arsenic an "elderly antheral with a mediocre memory," and nary charges were filed.
His use of an car pen during his last weeks successful bureau and a caller prostate crab diagnosis person besides exacerbated claims of his alleged intelligence decline.
On Friday, Biden besides slammed the authors of a caller publication that outlines that decline during his 2024 reelection campaign. “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” written by CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios newsman Alex Thompson, showed that the apical White House aides were unaware of his condition.
“You tin spot that I’m mentally incompetent, I can’t locomotion — and I tin bushed the hellhole retired of some of them,” Biden told reporters connected Friday.
He has besides suggested successful previous interviews that adjacent if helium had withdrawn from the contention earlier, "I don’t deliberation it would person mattered."
