Hillary Clinton says Biden’s re-election bid was a ‘terrible mistake’
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Megan Lebowitz
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday that former President Joe Biden made a “terrible mistake” to run for president again in 2024.
Her comments, which came during an interview at the 92nd Street Y with “The New Yorker” editor David Remnick, marked her strongest public criticism yet of Biden’s decision to embark on another presidential campaign before ultimately dropping out after a widely panned debate performance.
Asked by Remnick whether Biden made a “terrible mistake” to run in 2024, Clinton responded, “He made a terrible mistake. He made a terrible mistake for himself, his legacy and for the country.”
While Clinton acknowledged that “counterfactual narratives are always a bit tricky,” she said she believed if Biden had maintained his original plan to serve only one term and announced he would “pass the torch to the next generation, we would have had a real contest.”
“Very sadly, I believe whoever emerged from that contest, whether it was the vice president or a governor or a senator or anybody else, would have beaten Donald Trump,” she said. “So I think it was a terrible miscalculation on the part of President Biden.”
T.J. Ducklo, a spokesperson for Biden, declined to comment.
Reached for comment on Clinton’s remarks that another candidate would have beaten Trump, White House spokesperson Davis Ingle called Clinton “a whiny loser who no one wants to hear from.”
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