Joe Biden Still Thinks He Could Have Won in 2024. Oh, Please.

It ain't just a river in Egypt.

In an interview with USA Today (USA Today is still a thing? Who knew?), the soon-to-be-former President Biden claimed that had he stayed in the race, he would have won the 2024 presidential election. That, folks, is denial that's measurable on the Richter scale.

“It’s presumptuous to say that, but I think yes,” Biden told USA Today during a wide-ranging interview when asked if he could have won had he not exited the campaign in July.
Biden said that he still thinks that he could have defeated Trump because of the polls he had reviewed, according to USA Today. He wasn't confident, however, that he could have served a full second term. “I don’t know,” he said.
Before Biden had dropped out of the 2024 race in July, some polls showed he was trailing Trump or the race was in a dead heat.

Hint: He wouldn't have defeated Trump. The one acknowledgment of the reality that Democrats made in the 2024 election cycle was that Joe Biden was in no way fit for the office, although they happily let him remain in his Weekend at Bernie's presidency. If President Biden's erratic behavior, increasingly obvious mental and physical impairment, and flashes of unfound anger weren't enough to sink his electoral chances, his disastrous debate performance would have ended any hope he had.

Biden's presidency is not expected to fare well in the history books. My colleague Bob Hoge recently brought us this news:

Bob writes:

As his disastrous reign finally comes to a close (has it really only been four years? It feels like ten – in the desert), Americans largely seem to agree that he won’t be remembered fondly, at least according to Gallup. The outfit conducted a poll in December and concluded Tuesday that “Americans Think History Will Rate Biden Presidency Negatively.”
That’s a nice way of saying his numbers are horrendous.

The debate was the final straw, but only the final one of many. We had a friend visiting from the lower 48 on the day of the debate, and he described a series of texts he was getting from his progressive-lefty family members who were, as he described it, "increasingly desperate and despondent." But the signs were there well before the debate. Joe Biden was already confounding people with his behavior, which showed all the signs of advancing dementia: The creepy whispers, the sudden flashes of aggression, the inappropriate physical gestures, and most of all, the growing problems with word-finding. And Donald Trump, remember, in that debate, effectively defenestrated Biden's remaining chances of reelection with the comment, “I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don’t think he knows what he said either.” The comment hit home because it was so patently and obviously true.

After that debate, Joe Biden's reelection fate was sealed.

Then came the question of his replacement. After dropping out of the race and, despite his obvious and worrisome decline, announcing he would remain in office, he made what may have been his and the Democratic Party's biggest mistake of the cycle: The anointing of Kamala Harris. The Queen of Word Salads, let's be honest, was chosen for the VP role because she had the requisite combination of plumbing and melanin content that Joe Biden had promised the DEI bean counters. In the 2020 cycle, she dropped out of the Democrat primaries before a single vote was cast after being eviscerated in the first primary debate by none other than former Hawaii Rep. and director of national intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard.

That was the finale. If the Democrats really wanted to have any chance in the 2024 election, after the debate debacle, they would have done better to go to someone like Joe Manchin or even Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, hat in hand, asking, "Joe/Josh, please save us!"

But that won't work for today's Democratic Party, whose Overton Window has veered into and through the left lane, gone off the road, climbed out of the ditch, and crashed somewhere in the middle of a bean field.

President Biden's post-election shenanigans, including his pardon of his ne'er-do-well son, are just further proof that the American people made the better choice in 2024.

No; if Joe Biden had stayed in the race, we would still be speaking of President-elect Donald Trump today, and who knows - Trump may have carried Virginia, too.

There was an old saying back in the day: "It took a Carter to give us a Reagan." Today, we can honestly say, "It took a Biden to give us a Trump." So, no, Joe, you wouldn't have won this election. If anything, you would have fared worse than Kamala "Queen of Word Salads" Harris, not an easy feat in the current political climate.