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“He should not have run,” Buttigieg told Welker. “And if he had made that decision sooner, we might have been better off. But it literally was his decision. Nobody else was able to make that decision. And now in front of us, we’re confronted with the decisions that come next, whether that’s inside the political party or movement or as we’re all weighing right now, in our own lives, as Americans, as a country. And that’s where we’ve got to focus.”
Welker also pressed Buttigieg on whether he ever urged Biden not to run and whether it was reckless for the people around him to not do so.
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg looks on as former President Joe Biden speaks in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus on May 8, 2023, in Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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The former transportation secretary added, “we are where we are” as a country and a party.
“What matters now is how we build a different kind of future where people — not just politically, but nationally, where people can see themselves in what comes next,” he added.
In an excerpt of her new book, “107 Days,” Harris wrote that the stakes were too high for Biden to run again.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris is seen as a guest on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on July 31, 2025. (Scott Kowalchyk/CBS via Getty Images)
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Former aides to Biden criticized the book excerpt in comments to Axios.
Several Biden aides told Axios that Harris was trying to scapegoat Biden instead of reflecting on her own failures as vice president.
Former President Joe Biden speaks at a church service at Mt. Airy Church of God in Christ, Sunday, July 7, 2024, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
“Vice President Harris was simply not good at the job,” a former Biden White House official said. “She had basically zero substantive role in any of the administration’s key work streams, and instead would just dive bomb in for stilted photo ops that exposed how out of depth she was.”
Fox News’ Lindsay Kornick contributed to this report.
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