‘History will not be kind’ to Joe Biden as ex-Obama official says president is to blame for Kamala Harris ‘debacle’

A WHITE House authoritative nether Barack Obama has warned that "history volition not beryllium benignant to Joe Biden," and says the blasted for Kamala Harris' "debacle" lies squarely with him.

Brett Bruen, erstwhile Director of Global Engagement successful the Obama White House, slammed President Biden, accusing him of "political malpractice," for trying to "cling connected to powerfulness for excessively long."

He besides accused Obama's erstwhile vice president of not showing capable "accountability" successful his code connected Thursday.

Speaking from the White House Rose Garden, Biden gave a self-congratulatory address, claiming helium had near the system acold stronger than erstwhile helium took office.

But his address, which made small notation of Harris, was slammed by galore successful the Democratic Party and the mainstream media.

Even CNN trashed Biden for "tarnishing his ain legacy" successful the past year.

Bruen, present President of nationalist affairs bureau the Global Situation Room, told The U.S. Sun that the Democrats request to admit wherever they "came up short" successful this week's election.

That accountability, Bruen said, "is thing that was missing from Biden's concession."

He contrasted Biden's claims astir the system and praise for Harris' run with Obama's effect to the "shellacking" the Democrats took successful the 2012 legislative elections.

"Biden is going to spell down successful past arsenic idiosyncratic who tried to cling connected to powerfulness for excessively long," Bruen said.

"He ought to person been a modulation president from the tumultuous times of Trump into a caller era, a caller generation."

Bruen added that Biden's content his staying successful powerfulness was for the bully of the enactment and state "was rather frankly governmental malpractice."

He said that those astir Biden should person told him to measurement speech acold sooner.

"The work for Harris' nonaccomplishment yet rests with Biden," helium said.

"Biden should ne'er person entered this race."

Bruen besides slammed Biden's refusal to measurement speech until July, which gave Harris conscionable 3 months to hole for the election, without an unfastened superior to validate her candidacy.

"Quite frankly, helium needed to springiness her much support to region herself from his policies," helium said.

It comes as...

• Kamala Harris conceded successful a telephone telephone to Donald Trump connected Wednesday after refusing to talk to the media as helium took the lead
• She yet emerged from hiding for a 4 p.m. ET concession code wherever her VP prime Tim Walz was seen crying
• President Biden gave remarks connected the predetermination result connected Thursday morning
• Biden besides called Trump and invited him to the White House
• Trump took to the signifier successful Florida with his full household astatine astir 2:30 americium ET connected Tuesday to observe his win
• His moving mate JD Vance called the triumph the "greatest governmental comeback successful American history"
• It came arsenic Republicans took power of the Senate after Ted Cruz was re-elected successful Texas

BACK TO THE CENTER

Bruen warned the Dems astir veering to the populist near successful the aftermath of their dense decision to Donald Trump's populist close MAGA movement.

Following the devastating results, which saw a Republican triumph the fashionable ballot for the archetypal clip since 2004, seasoned autarkic Senator Bernie Sanders accused the Democrats of "abandoning" their working-class base.

But Bruen said Harris' defeat, which looks acceptable to spot Republicans expanse each plaything state, is simply a motion the enactment needs to govern from the center.

"The contented that Sanders raises is the close one," helium said. "But the maneuver for addressing that contented is not the close one."

He went on, "Part of the crushed wherefore we got ourselves into this concern was the Inflation Reduction Act was immoderate of the prescriptions that Sanders and AOC and others successful the squad offered.

"And what a batch of Americans are saying is, we don't privation that level of engagement successful societal issues.

"We don't privation the authorities to beryllium handing retired a batch of these societal programs."

He said Obama was capable to triumph 2 elections with a wide conjugation due to the fact that helium governed from the center, and helium was a "great communicator."

Bruen praised Obama for making a stronger lawsuit against Trump successful the run-up to November's election.

"Harris has ever had a much stilted and rather frankly struggled with communications, going backmost to the motorboat of her ain statesmanlike run successful 2020."

And helium called connected the Dems to larn from some Trump and Obama connected the value of choosing a campaigner who tin pass straight with voters.

"Picking candidates who tin beryllium effectual spokespeople who tin present a simple, sticky connection is simply a batch much important these days than idiosyncratic who has ticked each of the close governmental boxes," helium said.