‘I’d have beaten them’: Biden dismisses Dems who say he shouldn’t have run for reelection

by Jason Cohen

Former President Joe Biden on Friday fired back at Democrats who have come out against his 2024 reelection bid in Delaware on Friday after delivering remarks at a Memorial Day event.

Since reporting has come out about Biden’s decline, Democrats have questioned whether the former president should have run for a second term in office. When a reporter pressed him on it, Biden asked why the Democrats critical of him did not challenge him, answering his own question by asserting they would have lost if they had.

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“Why didn’t they run against me then? Because I’d have beaten them,” Biden asserted.

The reporter followed up by asking if he had “any regrets.”

“No, I don’t have any regrets,” the former president said.

“There’s a lot going on and I think we’re at a really difficult moment. Not only in American history, but in world history. I think we’re at one of those inflection points in history where the decisions we make in the next little bit are going to determine what things look like in the next 20 years,” he added. “I’ve been talking about that for a long time. And I’m very proud. I put my record as president against any president at all.”

The former president was diagnosed with an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer that has metastasized to the bones on May 16, his personal office announced on May 18. Biden also updated reporters about his cancer treatment after his speech.

“It’s all a matter of taking a pill, one particular pill. And for the next six weeks, and then another one,” he said. “And the expectation is we’re gonna be able to beat this. It’s not in any organ. My bones are strong. It hasn’t penetrated. So I’m feeling good.”

During the speech, Biden couldn’t quite finish reciting the most famous line in the Declaration of Independence.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal, endowed by their Creator, with certain unalienable rights, life, liberty, pursuit of ha — we made it!” he yelled. “That’s who we are! That’s what makes America the most unique nation in the world. Literally, not figuratively.”

The announcement of Biden’s diagnosis came just two days before the release of a book titled “Original Sin” about his physical and mental decline — and its cover-up — while in office.

Biden had a disastrous debate performance against President Donald Trump on June 27. He dropped out of the race on July 21 and endorsed former Vice President Kamala Harris, who lost all seven swing states and the popular vote to Trump in November.

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