Hunter Biden, the son of former president Joe Biden, attributed the Democratic Party’s 2024 election loss to the fact that they abandoned his father as the party’s leader.
Speaking for the first time since his father lost the presidential election, Hunter Biden offered a different perspective about the election on At Our Table, a new podcast hosted by former Democratic National Committee chairman Jaime Harrison.
“We lost the last election because we did not remain loyal to the leader of the party,” Hunter Biden said.
“That’s my position. We had the advantage of incumbency, we had the advantage of an incredibly successful administration, and the Democratic Party literally melted down,” he added.
After Joe Biden gave a disappointing and concerning debate performance against President Donald Trump last June, Democrats scrambled to create a “Plan B” – ultimately replacing Joe Biden with former vice president Kamala Harris on the Democratic presidential ticket.
But it took weeks for Joe Biden to agree to drop out of the presidential race.
Democratic party leadership, as well as voters, pressured Joe Biden, then the oldest person to serve as president, to let a younger candidate take the reins. In that time, Trump continued to aggressively campaign, picking up undecided voters who viewed the Democratic Party in turmoil.
At that point, Joe Biden was already behind Trump in the polls, and while Harris revitalized support among young people, it wasn’t enough to defeat the Republican nominee.
Hunter, however, believes that if the party had stood beside Joe Biden, the outcome would have been different.
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