President Biden still hasn’t gotten over being pushed out of the 2024 presidential race and spent his final hours in the White House mired in a foul mood, according to a report.
Biden has been in a “dark space,” having grown “embittered” by the series of circumstances that led to him being replaced as the party nominee by Vice President Kamala Harris, said CNN Senior White House Correspondent MJ Lee on Monday, according to Mediaite.
“All of our reporting, talking to sources in recent days and weeks, really suggests that the president is in a bit of a dark space when it comes to just his headspace in these very final days,” Lee told CNN’s Jake Tapper as inauguration ceremonies for President Trump were getting under way in Washington.
“We are told that he never really stopped feeling angry about the fact that he believes he was forced out,” she said.
“This pressure campaign to drop out of the 2024 race and then, especially since Election Day, when his vice president, Kamala Harris, was defeated by Donald Trump — he has grown increasingly embittered, we are told by sources, at the blame that he has gotten for Donald Trump’s eventual return to the White House.”
Lee said part of what has stuck in Biden’s craw in the months since Harris took over the Democratic ticket is his continued belief he would have been a stronger candidate against Trump, who resoundingly defeated Harris — capturing all seven key swing states.
“Now, all of this adds up to, I would say, a mood of sadness and sort of this sense of tragedy here at the White House,” Lee said.
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