Biden biographer torches president after Harris loss: Trump victory is Biden’s ‘legacy’

The Atlantic unit writer and biographer of President Biden, Franklin Foer, wrote a searing indictment of Biden pursuing Vice President Kamala Harris’ nonaccomplishment to President-elect Donald Trump earlier this week, saying her nonaccomplishment is Biden’s "legacy."

Foer, who wrote the 2023 publication "The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future," argued that Harris’ nonaccomplishment is his own, and helium mightiness consciousness it much than she will.

"Joe Biden cannot flight the information that his 4 years successful bureau paved the mode for the instrumentality of Donald Trump. This is his legacy. Everything other is an asterisk," Foer wrote successful an Atlantic article published connected Thursday.

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President Biden biographer Franklin Foer slammed Biden connected Thursday, penning that Trump's re-election whitethorn beryllium the astir important portion of Biden's legacy. (AP)

Foer opened his portion by noting however immoderate radical connected Biden’s squad were alert that a Harris nonaccomplishment would beryllium brutal connected the president’s legacy, who was elected successful 2020 connected the committedness that helium would extremity Trump’s agenda.

"Earlier this fall, 1 of Joe Biden’s closest aides felt compelled to archer the president a hard information astir Kamala Harris’s tally for the presidency: ‘You person much to suffer than she does.’ And present he’s mislaid it," helium wrote.

Foer's Atlantic communicative past offered a model into however Biden’s squad was processing Election Day, and their ain criticisms of the Harris campaign.

"They sounded arsenic deflated arsenic the remainder of the Democratic elite," helium wrote, adding, "They besides had a interest of their own: Members of Biden’s clan proceed to stoke the delusion that its paterfamilias would person won the election, and immoderate of his advisers feared that helium mightiness publically dependable that profoundly misguided view."

The biographer noted that Biden’s squad seemed to amusement an "unstated religion that they could person done better."

He described immoderate of the Biden critiques of the Harris campaign, the archetypal being that she "abandoned her astir potent attack," being that she initially portrayed herself arsenic a "relentless scourge of Big Business" who went aft Trump arsenic a "a stooge of firm interests."

According to the Biden aides helium spoke to, Harris seemingly ditched this messaging astatine the behest of her brother-in-law.

"Then, rather suddenly, this strain of populism disappeared. One Biden adjutant told maine that Harris steered distant from specified hard-edged messaging astatine the urging of her brother-in-law, Tony West, Uber’s main ineligible officer," Foer wrote.

"To triumph the enactment of CEOs, Harris jettisoned a beardown statement that deflected attraction from 1 of her weakest issues. Instead, the run elevated Mark Cuban arsenic 1 of its main surrogates, the precise benignant of affluent feline she had precocious attacked," helium added.

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Another Bidenland critique helium included was that Harris did not propulsion backmost against individuality authorities enough. According to his team, Biden "would person intelligibly rejected the thought of trans women competing successful women’s sports."

"Of course, helium ne'er staked retired that presumption successful his presidency," Foer wrote successful Harris’ defense, adding that she didn’t tally a woke campaign. "To the contrary, she bathed herself successful patriotism. She presented herself arsenic a prosecutor, a person of instrumentality enforcement, and a arrogant weapon owner."

However, the writer did admit that "she failed to respond to the ubiquitous ads the Trump run ran claiming that Harris supports sex-change operations for prisoners. She allowed Trump to make the content that she favored the astir extremist mentation of transgender rights."

Foer concluded with the conception that Biden’s bequest volition adjacent endure his successes being destroyed and adjacent immoderate of them claimed by Trump during the president-elect’s 2nd term.

"Biden helped physique the foundations for economical growth, with the Inflation Reduction Act, the CHIPS Act, and the infrastructure bill. Because the investments enabled by each 3 of those bills volition instrumentality years to carnivore fruit, Biden ne'er had the accidental to reap the harvest."

"Despite Trump’s absorption to those pieces of legislation, the benefits of those bills could bolster his presidency. Biden volition person passed on his astir substantive bequest arsenic a acquisition to his successor," Foer declared.

President Joe Biden departs the Rose Garden aft speaking connected the 2024 predetermination successful the Rose Garden connected November 07, 2024, successful Washington, D.C. Former President Donald Trump defeated Democratic campaigner Vice President Kamala Harris. Biden pledged to enactment with the Trump squad to guarantee a creaseless modulation and invited the erstwhile President for an Oval Office meeting. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Biden offered a conciliatory message to the federation connected Thursday pursuing Trump’s victory, urging Americans to judge the predetermination results and expressing his administration’s committedness to "ensure a peaceful and orderly transition" to a Trump administration.

"A state chooses 1 oregon the other. We judge the prime the state made. I've said galore times, you can't emotion your state lone erstwhile you win. You can't emotion your neighbour lone erstwhile you agree. Something I anticipation we tin do, nary substance who you voted for, you spot each different not arsenic adversaries, but arsenic chap Americans," helium said.

Fox News Digital’s Chris Pandolfo contributed to this report.

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