‘What Were You Thinking?’ Dan Abrams Calls Out Biden After Harris Defeat, Says Reelection Bid Was a Bad Idea

Dan Abrams said President Joe Biden deserves some of the blame after Vice President Kamala Harris lost the presidential election on Tuesday.

Harris lost to former President Donald Trump convincingly after having to run an abbreviated campaign. Biden ended his reelection bid in July following a catastrophic debate performance against Trump. The withdrawal came too late to hold a primary, and Democrats seemingly wanted to avoid the chaos and uncertainty of a brokered convention.

On Wednesday’s Dan Abrams Live on NewsNation, Abrams, the founder and owner of Mediaite, took Biden to task over his decision to run for reelection in the first place.

“President Biden, what were you thinking ever running for reelection?” Abrams wondered. “Remember he said he wouldn’t do it eight months before he won the 2020 election.”

The host played a clip of Biden at a campaign rally in Michigan in March 2020.

“Look, I view myself as a bridge, not as anything else,” Biden said. “There’s an entire generation of leaders you saw stand behind me. They are the future of this country.”

“The bridge!” Abrams exclaimed. “He was only gonna run for one term and transition the party in 2024 to new and younger leadership. And then, the 80-year-old man in April of last year announced he’d be running for reelection to, quote, ‘finish the job.'”

Abrams noted that Biden ultimately dropped out shortly before the general election.

“In other words, he left their party with three months and no primary to prepare,” he continued. “And let’s be clear. If Biden had stayed in the race… he almost certainly would have done worse than Harris. So, for anyone suggesting that the Democrats lost because Biden dropped out, that is a fantasy. The issue is that Biden probably never should’ve run in the first place. And so tonight, we ask President Biden, what were you thinking?”

Watch above via NewsNation.