Former Secretary of State and failed 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Monday night trashed former president Joe Biden for his decision to run for reelection in 2024."He made a terrible mistake," Clinton said in an interview with David Remnick of 92NY."He made a terrible mistake for himself, his legacy and for the country."It furthers the Democrats' narrative shift over Biden's health and his decision to seek a second term after former First Lady Jill Biden last month revealed she worried her husband was having a stroke on stage during his June 2024 debate with President Donald Trump.Clinton is now bashing her one-time ally by claiming he went back on his word and insisting that former Vice President Kamala Harris would have had a chance to win if she was the candidate from the get-go.Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks on the first day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago on Aug.
19, 2024.(Mandel Ngan/Getty Images)"He had said that he would not run again, and you know, counterfactual narratives are always a bit tricky, but I believe that if he had kept to that plan and said in say, the late summer of '23, that he wasn't going to run, that he was going to pass the torch to the next generation we would've had a real contest," Clinton said in her sit-down in Manhattan this week.Biden exited the presidential race in late July 2024, a few weeks after a disastrous debate display led to left-wing commentators calling for him to step down.
The Democratic Party then installed then-VP Harris as its presidential nominee without a primary vote."Very sadly, I believe that whoever emerged from the contest, whether it was the vice president or a governor or a senator or anybody else, would have beaten Donald Trump," Clinton retroactively speculated."So I think it was a terrible miscalculation on the part of President Biden, but once he didn't move and did not admit that he had said he was going to step aside and decided...