US presidential election: Biden: Take responsibility for Trump’s election victory

Former US President Joe Biden shows himself self-critically with a view to the election victory of his Republican successor Donald Trump. In an interview with the broadcaster ABC News, the Democrat said when asked whether he feels responsible for it: “Yes, I do that, because I had said that and he won. So I take responsibility.”

Biden accused Trump of actively hindering his government and projecting, especially in migration policy. At the same time, he confessed that political successes had not adequately conveyed to the public. “We weren’t quite as good as he was concerned,” said Biden. “So it was a mistake that we couldn’t sell better.” But that also had to do with the fact that many political measures had only taken up with delay and that their effects were not immediately noticeable.

Biden: Reports on cognitive dismantling “wrong”

The 82-year-old had withdrawn from the presidential election campaign last year after there had been doubts about his physical and mental fitness for a second term-instead, his vice president Kamala Harris competed and lost to the election. Biden rejected the allegation of a cognitive breakdown during his time in the White House. Reports about an allegedly drastic deterioration in his condition in the last year of office are wrong and lacked any basis, he said.

Biden admitted that the TV duel against Trump, who had triggered the internal criticism of him, had not given a convincing appearance. Nevertheless, he emphasized that the decision to get out of the race did not fall for health reasons, but to prevent the Democrats from splitting. “I wanted to put the country about my personal interest,” emphasized Biden.

His wife Jill Biden also had their say in the interview. She rejected allegations that she had kept her husband for too long in the election campaign or shielded him from reality. “I was with Joe day and night. I woke him up in the morning and went to sleep with him in the evening,” she said. According to her own words, she had deeply violated the public presentation of her role in the final phase of the term.