WASHINGTON – Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in a new interview that former President Joe Biden should have stayed out of the presidential race in 2024.
“He should not have run, and if he had made that decision sooner, we might have been better off,” Buttigieg told NBC News’ Kristen Welker on “Meet the Press” on Sept. 14.
“But it literally was his decision. Nobody else was able to make that decision, and now in front of us, we're confronted with the decisions that come next, whether that's inside of a political party or movement, or as we're all weighing right now in our own lives as Americans, as a country, and that's where we've got to focus,” he added.
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His remarks come after former Vice President Kamala Harris wrote in her new memoir, “107 Days,” which details her 2024 presidential campaign, that it was “recklessness” that drove so many people around Biden to defer to the aging president and his wife about his reelection decision.
