AP’s Zeke Miller: “[W]hen the President spoke in a little bit ago, one thing he did not do was take any accountability for his party’s defeat on Tuesday night. Does he feel any sense of responsibility for the outcome? Does he feel he would have — he should have done things differently through the course of this campaign?”

KJP: “So there’s a lot there and let me, if you don’t mind, give me a second to unpack all of this because I think it’s important for the American people to hear this as well. Look, the President has spoken to this, and he’ll — I’ll say it again here, he was certainly inspired by the — the campaign that the Vice President ran — uh — and — uh — when he decided to pass the torch over to the Vice President, you saw you saw the party come right behind her, support her right after he was able to do that and it’s because she was the right person for the job l… but with all of that said — and this gets to your question, despite all of the accomplishments that we were able to get done, there were global headwinds that — um — because of the COVID-19 pandemic — uh — obviously COVID-19 led to a disruptions with the supply chain and it had a political toll on many incumbents. If you look at what happened in 2024 globally, and that’s what — that’s part of what you saw, right? You saw that there was a — um — a political toll on incumbent parties around the world here. Now, to be very mindful and leave the political analysis to the pundits, they’re going to dig in, they’re going to look under the hood, they’re going to see exactly what happened — uh — but what we saw two nights ago was not unusual to what we have seen from the incumbencies around the world on the global stage.”

AP’s Zeke Miller: “To restate my question —”
KJP: “Yeah?”
Miller: “— does the President feel any responsibility for the outcome?”

KJP: “The President understands that he’s going to respect the will of the people. That’s what he understands. He understands that the American people made a decision and he’s going to respect that. He believed he made the right decision when he stepped — stepped aside, decided that he wasn’t going to run. He automatically —”

Miller: “[Inaudible] have run in 2022, though?”

KJP: “— guys, here’s the thing, and we can’t — we can’t rewrite history. We have to remember what happened in 2022. 2022 is a perfect example actually because when we came out of 2022 midterms, we saw a successful midterms from — from — for any new administration in over 60 years and it was because of the President’s policies. Let’s not forget that all of the accomplishments that the President did, again, I had listed the bipartisan infrastructure legislation, Chips and Science Act — uh — the inflation reduction Act, those are popular with the American people. They are. Those policies were indeed popular — uh — and that’s what got us through the 2022 midterm. It was supposed to be a red wave that didn’t happen. And so, coming out of that, we did see some historic markers there, and so, the President believed that he needed to do — he’s always going to put the American people first, when he decided to step down and endorse immediately the vice president. That’s what he thought was the right thing to do in that moment, in that time.”

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Q: Does Biden take any accountability for his party’s defeat? Any sense of responsibility?