Democrats have begun to turn on the former president. He’s of no use to them anymore.
And this Leftist governor admits something about Biden that will leave your head spinning.
Maura Healey Reflects on Biden’s Role as Democrats Face Post-Election Fallout
In a candid conversation with The New York Times, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey didn’t mince words when assessing the Democratic Party’s struggles in the recent election. She pointed to former President Joe Biden’s tenure as the party’s leading voice, arguing it left Democrats at a disadvantage.
“I think the party was hampered by having President Biden as the communicator in chief, if I’m being honest,” Healey told journalist Lulu Garcia-Navarro. “He wasn’t the strongest communicator in chief, and that hurt us because they weren’t able to sell all of the important accomplishments effectively.”
Healey’s critique comes as the party wrestles with the repercussions of Biden’s exit from the 2024 race. After a shaky debate performance in June, Biden faced mounting pressure from within his own ranks to step aside—a chorus Healey herself joined, urging him to “carefully evaluate” his next steps.
He eventually bowed out, paving the way for Vice President Kamala Harris to take the helm. Yet, Healey believes the timing was far from ideal. “Are we grappling with what happened and having to deal with it right now? You better believe it,” she said. “We’ve got Donald Trump in the White House. I think it was very hard for Kamala Harris, who I thought ran a fantastic campaign, to be able to overcome the disadvantage within the time that she was allotted.”
The governor didn’t stop there. She suggested the story might have played out differently if Biden had stuck to what she claims was an earlier promise: serving just one term. “And I think it would have been a different story if the president had decided a few years ago that he was going to do what he said he would do, which is serve one term,” Healey remarked.
“Then we’d have the opportunity for full engagement in a primary and the like. That didn’t happen.” Still, she’s ready to move on, adding, “I have no interest in further spending time on it, revisiting history. I’m focused on the now.”
Meanwhile, Biden’s inner circle has faced its own share of scrutiny. Mike Donilon, one of the former president’s top advisors, recently stirred controversy by asserting Biden should have stayed in the race, pinning the party’s post-debate panic as a misstep. On the flip side, President Donald Trump offered a glimpse into a private exchange with Biden, shedding light on the former president’s bitterness.
“I asked him, I said, ‘So who do you blame?’” Trump recounted to The Spectator. “Because he was very angry, you know, he was a very angry guy, actually. And he said, ‘I blame Barack.’ And I never think of him as ‘Barack.’ You know, you always hear ‘Obama.’ You say, you have to think about that for a second. And he said, ‘and I also blame Nancy Pelosi.’”
As Democrats pick up the pieces after Harris’ defeat, fingers are pointing in all directions. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, widely credited with pushing Biden out, hinted at her own regrets.
“Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race,” she said in November. “And as I say, Kamala may have, I think she would have done well in [a primary] and been stronger going forward. But we don’t know that. That didn’t happen. We live with what happened.”
The Democrats’ Deception on Biden’s Decline
Beyond the election postmortems, a darker thread runs through this saga: the Democratic Party’s apparent efforts to conceal Biden’s faltering capacities. For months, if not years, whispers about his cognitive decline circulated—yet party leaders, aides, and allies consistently brushed them aside.
Publicly, they painted a picture of a vigorous, capable leader, even as unscripted moments revealed stumbles, confusion, and fatigue. The June debate shattered that illusion, exposing what many had long suspected but Democrats had worked to suppress.
The deceit wasn’t just about optics—it was strategic. By keeping Biden front and center, the party avoided a messy primary that might have diluted its messaging or revealed internal rifts. Figures like Pelosi and Obama, while later distancing themselves, played along for as long as it suited them.
Biden’s own team, including Donilon, doubled down, dismissing concerns as partisan attacks or exaggerations. This gambit backfired spectacularly, leaving Harris with mere months to salvage a campaign built on a shaky foundation.
Perhaps most galling is the hindsight from leaders like Healey and Pelosi, who now lament the timing but stayed silent when it mattered most. Their belated candor feels less like accountability and more like a convenient rewrite of a story they helped script. The result? A party caught off guard, a candidacy rushed into chaos, and a loss that might have been avoided had honesty prevailed over political expediency. As Democrats reckon with Trump’s return, the sting of that deception lingers as a lesson unlearned.
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