by Frank Holmes, reporter
How President Joe Biden has fallen.
Just six months ago, Vice President Kamala Harris was leading the Democratic National Convention in cheering him as a hero and statesman who put his country ahead of his personal ambition by allowing Democratic Party leaders to push him out of his reelection campaign.
But since President-elect Donald Trump won an impressive victory in November, even the Democrats’ biggest propagandists have insulted him as “flat out bonkers.”
It all began when Biden — who is still sitting president until January 20 — told a national newspaper that, if he had stayed in the race, he could have beaten Trump. Then it got much, much worse.
A reporter for USA Today asked Biden if he thought he could have won a second term in 2024, in an interview published on January 8.
“It’s presumptuous to say that, but I think yes,” Biden said, allegedly based on private polls he alone had seen.
To be fair, it’s not exactly news that Biden thinks he could beat Trump like Corn Pop.
Three days after Christmas, The Washington Post reported, “Biden and these aides have told people in recent days that he could have defeated Trump, according to people familiar with their comments, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations.”
As a matter of fact, Biden let the man most responsible for his ouster know that replacing him with Harris had backfired spectacularly.
“I know…that’s true…We have time,” responded Obama, according to a lip-reading expert employed by the New York Post.
Others reported that Obama also replied to former-candidate Biden with the words “no” and “not good.”
Finally, even the legacy media couldn’t take it any more and lowered the boom.
“Truthfully, I classify this statement as flat-out bonkers,” said CNN data analyst Harry Enten.
Zero of six incumbent presidents who had a negative approval rating got elected. It is a political kiss of death.
Joe Biden’s approval rating was underwater by a staggering 19 points.
“It’s not just that Trump was ahead—he was ahead by a lot in these key battleground states,” said Enten, showing Trump trouncing Biden by as many as six points in “battleground” states.
It wasn’t any one geographic region: Enten pointed out Trump led in the North, South, East, West, Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, etc.
Although CNN didn’t say it, Biden lost ground with die-hard Democratic voters in the most dyed-in-the-wool liberal states.
For a less dramatic case, look at Virginia, where the elite, federal “workers” of the D.C. suburbs drowned out middle-class Republicans downstate long ago. Biden won by the by 10 points in 2020, but by April, at least one poll showed the Democrat and President Trump were tied neck-and-neck.
Joe Biden’s problems in 2020 were not even just geographic. The 82-year-old president was bleeding voters from just about every reliably Democratic voting group nationwide. By April, Biden had squandered his 20-point lead with young voters under 35 to just four points, putting it almost within the range of error — and Trump already led Biden with that voting bloc in swing states.
Black voters, Hispanics, suburban women — all backed off their gung-ho support for the Democratic Party in 2024 after four years of seeing what damage Joe Biden did…and they never came back for Harris.
“The bottom line is this: Joe Biden was behind, he had always been behind and he most likely would have stayed behind,” said Enten.
That makes any revisionist claims about taking Trump out behind the high school gym and kicking his posterior, electorally speaking, pure “bonkers,” Enten concluded.
But Joe Biden decided that wasn’t the final word.
Based on the polling data, I categorize Biden's statement that he could have beaten Trump as "flat out bonkers."
Biden was well behind Trump when he dropped out. Biden never led in all of 2024. And no incumbent president who was anywhere near as unpopular as Biden has ever won. pic.twitter.com/lGk9h8pygU
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) January 8, 2025
As usual, Biden learned nothing from one huge lost and came out for another.
After CNN’s smackdown, a reporter asked Biden as a rare press conference, “Do you regret your decision to run again? Do you think that helped your predecessor become your successor?”
“I don’t think so. I think I would have beaten Trump, could have beaten Trump, and I think that Kamala could have beaten Trump and would have beaten Trump,” said Biden… who apparently didn’t remember that Harris ran and lost badly to Trump in November.
President Biden:
“I think I would've beaten Trump, could’ve beaten Trump."pic.twitter.com/Sc1iBLSOwW
— The American Conservative (@amconmag) January 10, 2025
Joe Biden’s performance doesn’t make anything think he could have beaten Trump; it makes them wonder if Biden can beat senility to the end of his statement.
“What a joke!” said Lindy Li, a former leader in the Democratic Party. “I’m sorry; that just enrages me so much.”
“Biden is absolutely delusional in saying that,” Li. “Every time he (Joe Biden) speaks we wonder if he’s going to make it to the end of the sentence.”
Li said the greatest problem of the last four years is “the cover-up of Biden’s age and cognitive decline.”
“I tried to speak up, and every time I wanted to speak up about his age, the White House threatened me and tried to pressure me into remaining silent,” she revealed.
Biden claimed that he could have beaten Trump:
Lindy Li: "Everytime he [Joe Biden] speaks we wonder if he's going to make it to the end of the sentence."Joe Biden: 'I would have beaten Trump! What's that smell?'
That's LA burning to the ground on your watch, sir. pic.twitter.com/q9EmtlKfTb— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) January 11, 2025
But even in the USA Today story, Biden has repeatedly showed he was completely delusional.
When asked if he had the cognitive or health ability to serve as president for the next four years, Biden replied, “I don’t know.”
Even to suggest Biden had the energy to run the presidency for the next four years — or the last four years — shows how bonkers he truly is.