ABC’s Selina Wang: “Does President Biden believe he could have won if he stayed in this race?”
KJP: “President Biden believes that he made the right decision when he decided to step aside — uh — and — uh — immediately endorsed the Vice President and you saw the party come behind her, support her, and he believed it was the right thing for the American people. He put himself aside. This was not about him. This is about what was right for the American people, and that’s what he believes. He believes it was the right decision to make. He’s very incredibly proud.”
Reuters’s Jeff Mason: “There’s been a lot of criticism in the last couple of days directly addressed at President Biden for some of the questions that have already been asked — running in the first place or not stepping aside faster. Some of that criticism has also been directed at his team and the advisors around him for advising him to do what he did. Can you address that criticism?”
KJP: “To — to do what he did? Meaning?”
Mason: “Running again, not stepping aside faster and showing what some people say, quoting folks here, an arrogance of believing he was the only one who could beat Donald Trump.”
KJP: “I mean, it — well — you said something at the end that I do wanna just kind of reiterate and remind — remind folks, and it was a good reminder to me, which is, like, look, the President, this is the President who has been the only person has been able to beat Donald Trump. I mean, that is true. In 2020, he was able to do that. There were more than 20 candidates who tried to beat him, and they, he was the one that has been able to do that … And when he did decide to step aside, he immediately endorsed her and the party unified behind her. They did.”
Mason: “You’ve said that. My — my question is if you can or want to —“
KJP: “Yeah?”
Mason: “— address the criticism that’s being directed at him for this loss.”
KJP: “There’s going to be a lot of people who are going to say a lot of things. There’s going to be election experts who are going to look under the hood in the next couple of days and weeks and months as I’ve said already, and they’re going to have their opinion on this race. What I can say is that, and this is something the president says all the time, you get knocked down, you get back up, and the president said this moment again — uh — you know — uh — this is a defeat, but we are not defeated and the president believed he made the right decision on behalf of the American people on behalf of this country to step aside ”
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Q: Does Biden believe won if he stayed in this race? criticism not stepping aside faster, arrogance?