Joe Biden had mapped out a game plan for his final months as president. Then a series of cascading crises intruded.
The 46th President is one of the best one-term leaders in U.S. history. But Trump's reelection hangs over everything Biden achieved.
The former House speakeri said there could have been an "open primary" had President Biden stepped aside earlier.
President Joe Biden addressed the nation Thursday to discuss president-elect Donald Trump's upcoming transition into power.
"The country is headed in a very dangerous direction and it’s due in part to his arrogance," veteran Democratic aide Jim Manley told Politico.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has slammed Joe Biden for delaying his exit from the 2024 race and denying his party an open selection process for his replacement
The powerful former speaker of the House suggested the Democrats could have fared better if the president stood down as candidate sooner.
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.
President Biden extended the invitation to his former rival as part of a longstanding tradition to help ease the transition to a new administration.
Such a meeting is traditional, but Trump, a Republican, did not host Biden, a Democrat, for a sit-down after the 2020 election.