The former House Speaker also seemed to reject any analysis blaming Democrats for their election loss on a failure to win over working families.
The 46th President is one of the best one-term leaders in U.S. history. But Trump's reelection hangs over everything Biden achieved.
Joe Biden had mapped out a game plan for his final months as president. Then a series of cascading crises intruded.
The former House speakeri said there could have been an "open primary" had President Biden stepped aside earlier.
U.S. President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump will meet on Wednesday at the White House on Biden's invitation, a White House spokesperson said on Saturday. Trump will take office on Jan. 20 after defeating current Vice President Kamala Harris in the Nov.
President-elect Donald Trump will meet with President Joe Biden on Wednesday after Trump defeated Kamala Harris in the race for U.S. president.
Millions of voters who backed Joe Biden in 2020 apparently did not support Vice President Kamala Harris in this year's election. Harris suffered a heavy loss to Donald Trump in the 2024 race, with the Republican on course to win the popular vote and sweep all seven of the key swing states.
President-elect Donald Trump has won Arizona, NBC News projects, putting its 11 electoral votes in his column after he narrowly lost the state to President Joe Biden in 2020.
The powerful former speaker of the House suggested the Democrats could have fared better if the president stood down as candidate sooner.
The migrants participated in two Biden programs that created legal pathways to enter the U.S. and punished those who crossed the border illegally.