White House says Biden believes he made right decision to drop out of 2024 race despite Trump victory

White House property secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said President Biden believed helium made the close determination to driblet retired of the statesmanlike contention successful July, acknowledging determination are galore predetermination experts analyzing the failed efforts by the Democratic Party with their ain opinions connected the contention dominated by Republican President-elect Trump.

Jean-Pierre spoke to reporters during a property briefing Thursday afternoon, saying Biden had called Trump to congratulate him connected his victory, assuring Trump helium would nonstop his medication to enactment with Trump's squad to guarantee a peaceful and orderly modulation of power.

Additionally, Jean-Pierre said Biden had spoken with Vice President Kamala Harris to congratulate her connected a "history-inspiring campaign."

"For immoderate people, this predetermination is simply a clip of victory, and for others, it’s a clip of loss," she said. "To authorities the obvious, Tuesday night’s results were not our team’s desired outcome. There’s going to beryllium a batch of postmortem investigation of what happened successful the coming days, successful the coming weeks, adjacent successful the coming months."

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White House property caput Karine Jean-Pierre said Thursday President Biden believes helium did the close happening by stepping retired of the statesmanlike contention successful July. (Fox News )

One newsman asked Jean-Pierre to code the disapproval directed astatine Biden for the loss.

"What I tin say, and this is thing the president says each the time: ‘You get knocked down, you get backmost up,’" Jean-Pierre said, noting the president made that nonstop connection moments earlier. "The president believes helium made the close determination connected behalf of the American people, connected behalf of this country, to measurement aside."

After the 2022 midterms, Biden decided to question re-election contempt polls successful 2023 showing that astir 80% of the American nationalist believed the octogenarian was excessively aged to service different term.

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President Biden delivers the State of the Union code earlier a associated league of Congress successful the House enclosure astatine the U.S. Capitol gathering successful Washington, D.C., March 7.   (Shawn Thew-Pool/Getty Images)

"What helium believed is that 14 cardinal voters decided successful the superior to marque him and the vice president, evidently she was connected the ticket, the nominee," Jean-Pierre said erstwhile asked again if Biden made the close determination to run for president. "Fourteen cardinal Americans decided that. So, they made their determination connected who they wanted.

"Now, arsenic we know, successful July the president made a determination to measurement speech and helium instantly … endorsed the vice president," she added.

Jean-Pierre was besides pressed connected whether it was incorrect for the president’s squad successful 2023 to firmly promote rising stars successful the Democratic Party and others who participated successful the 2020 rhythm to rally down Biden and not see moving for president.

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President-elect Trump arrives to talk during an predetermination nighttime lawsuit astatine the Palm Beach Convention Center successful West Palm Beach, Fla. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

She refused to get into a circumstantial speech but said it was not antithetic for enactment members to rally down their leader, which, successful this case, was Biden.

"What I tin accidental is what the president decided to do, what the president believed and what the president is going to proceed to do, [which] is enactment the American radical first," Jean-Pierre said.

She was besides pressed astir whether Biden inactive stands by his description of Trump being an existential menace to democracy.

Jean-Pierre said Biden believes what helium said astatine the clip and believes helium had an work to beryllium honorable with Americans.

She backed her connection up by pointing to comments made by erstwhile main of unit John Kelly, who referred to Trump arsenic a "fascist."

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During a bid of interviews conducted with the media and published successful October, Kelly recounted aggregate occasions erstwhile the erstwhile president allegedly praised Adolf Hitler. Kelly besides insisted Trump met the "general explanation of a fascist" and would govern similar a dictator if allowed.

Jean-Pierre said Kelly was wide successful his statements, portion besides pointing to statements made by Trump astir the force within, going aft radical who disagree with him.

"Look, we’re being precise wide here," Jean-Pierre said. "The result was not what we wanted, and the Americans person made a determination that we privation to respect. We privation to respect the determination that the American radical person made, and we are going to marque definite that the American radical get what they deserve, which is simply a peaceful transportation of power."