Biden biographer set the president on fire after Harris’ defeat: Trump’s victory is Biden’s “legacy”

Atlantic staff writer and President Biden biographer Franklin Foer wrote a scathing indictment of Biden following Vice President Kamala Harris’ loss to President-elect Donald Trump earlier this week, saying her loss is Biden’s “legacy.”

Foer, who wrote the 2023 book “The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden’s White House and the Fight for America’s Future,” argued that Harris’ failure was his own fault and he might feel it more than she did.

“Joe Biden cannot escape the fact that his four years in office paved the way for the return of Donald Trump. This is his legacy. Everything else is an asterisk,” Foer wrote in his letter. Atlantic article published on Thursday.

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President Biden biographer Franklin Foer criticized Biden on Thursday, writing that Trump’s reelection could be the most significant part of Biden’s legacy. (AP)

Foer began his article by noting that some people on Biden’s team recognized that losing Harris would be harsh on the legacy of a president who was elected in 2020 on a promise to end Trump’s agenda.

“Earlier this fall, one of Joe Biden’s closest aides felt compelled to tell the president the hard truth about Kamala Harris’s run for president: “You have more to lose than she does.” And now he’s lost it,” he wrote.

Foer’s Atlantic story then provided a glimpse into how the Biden team viewed Election Day, as well as their own criticism of the Harris campaign.

“They sounded as despondent as the rest of the Democratic elite,” he wrote, adding: “They also had their own concerns: Members of the Biden clan continue to fuel the fallacy that his paterfamilias would have won the election, and some of them his advisers were afraid that he might publicly express this deeply mistaken view.”

The biographer noted that Biden’s team seemed to demonstrate “an unexpressed belief that they could do better.”

He described some of Biden’s criticisms of the Harris campaign, the first of which was that it had “abandoned its most powerful attack” in that it had initially portrayed itself as a “ruthless scourge of big business” that had gone after Trump as ” a puppet of corporate interests.”

Harris apparently refused, according to Biden aides he spoke with. this message at the insistence of his son-in-law.

“Then all of a sudden this trend of populism disappeared. One of Biden’s aides told me that Harris refrained from such harsh messages at the urging of her son-in-law, Tony West, Uber’s chief legal officer,” Foer wrote.

“To win support from executives, Harris abandoned a strong argument that distracted attention from one of her weakest issues. “Instead, the campaign has elevated Mark Cuban as one of its top surrogates, the same rich guy it recently attacked,” he said. added.

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Another criticism of Bidenland he included was that Harris did not push back against identity politics enough. According to his team, Biden “would clearly reject the idea of ​​trans women participating in women’s sports.”

“Of course, he never held that position during his presidency,” Foer wrote in Harris’ defense, adding that she was not running a woke campaign. “On the contrary, she bathed in patriotism. She envisioned herself as a prosecutor, a friend to law enforcement and a proud gun owner.”

However, the author acknowledged that “she has not responded to the ubiquitous Trump campaign ads claiming that Harris supports gender reassignment surgeries for prisoners. “She allowed Trump to give the impression that she supported the most radical version of transgender rights.”

Foer concluded by suggesting that Biden’s legacy would even suffer from the erasure of his successes, even some of them claimed by Trump during the president-elect’s second term.

“Biden helped lay the foundation for economic growth with the Inflation Relief Act, the CHIPS Act, and the infrastructure bill. harvest.”

“Despite Trump’s opposition to these bills, the benefits of these bills could strengthen his presidency. “Biden will pass on his most significant legacy as a gift to his successor,” Foer said.

President Joe Biden leaves the Rose Garden after speaking on the 2024 election in the Rose Garden on November 7, 2024 in Washington, DC. Former President Donald Trump defeated Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris. Biden vowed to work with Trump’s team to ensure a smooth transition and invited the former president to a meeting in the Oval Office. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Biden proposed conciliatory message addressed the nation Thursday after Trump’s victory, calling on Americans to accept the election results and expressing his administration’s commitment to “ensuring a peaceful and orderly transition” to the Trump administration.

“The country chooses one or the other. We accept the choice the country has made. I have said many times: you cannot love your country only when you win. You can’t love your neighbor only when you agree. I hope we can do this, no matter who you voted for, you do not see each other as opponents, but as compatriots,” he said.

Fox News Digital’s Chris Pandolfo contributed to this report.

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