Ex-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says Biden 'should not have run' for reelection

[Polybius]

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Source: Washington Times

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s opinion on whether his former boss, President Joseph R. Biden, should have run for re-election has shifted from “maybe” to an outright no.

“He should not have run,” Mr. Buttigieg said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “And if he had made that decision sooner, we might have been better off.”

Mr. Buttigieg is considering a 2028 presidential run, and the question of whether Mr. Biden should have sought re-election has become a litmus test in the early jockeying for position among the possible Democratic contenders.

In her new memoir, “107 Days,” former Vice President Kamala Harris, who replaced Mr. Biden atop the Democratic ticket after his disastrous Atlanta debate performance, added more fuel to the fire, describing Mr. Biden’s re-election push as reckless.

Read more: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/14/pete-buttigieg-ex-transportation-secretary-president-biden-run/

[choie]

1. Is that REALLY what we should be focusing on at the moment, Mr. Buttigieg?

[marble falls]

2. Let it go, Pete. Get into the now.

[Keepthesoulalive]

3. Not this crap again.

Aim at the enemy, not your foot.

[Wicked Blue]

4. Why on earth are people piling on President Biden?

I wish they would let him retire in peace. He was a great president.

[totodeinhere]

8. Maybe because they believe that if Biden had dropped out earlier Harris

would have had as better chance to defeat the scumbag we have in the Oval Office now.

[VeryProgressive]

5. He Didn't

And can we move on from this?

[usonian]

6. Woulda, coulda, shoulda are the road to defeat. Why?

Times change.
People change.
Places change, and
Situations change.

Look back and you'll walk into a fire hydrant.

[dweller]

7. That horse is dead

Stop flogging it


Makes you look bad Pete




✌🏻

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

9. I still have a lot of respect for Mayor Pete, but sometimes he disappoints, as in this case.

[Blue Dotty]

10. Hindsight ...Something something

[kacekwl]

11. You know I love Pete

but I really don't want to hear this shit anymore.

[Bristlecone]

12. He was one of the biggest advocates for Joe, pushing his candidacy

Even after the debate fiasco. On every channel.

It’s so easy to armchair quarterback at this stage.

[Hayabusa]

13. The thing about all of these recent statements

is that all of them are made from hindsight.

[Escape]

14. Agree with Pete 100%.......

Biden was a great president and should have done everything in his power to help us elect another great Democratic president in 2024.

He had no chance of winning re-election--even against the worst Republican candidate in history.

[samsingh]

16. agreed

[samsingh]

15. I support Pete

[Lasher]

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