An anonymous Democratic official has criticized Joe Biden for “playing the victim” amid calls for him to withdraw from the race.
Biden, 81, responded to those calls on Sunday by ending his campaign in a letter he posted to social media.
While many Democrats praise Biden for pulling himself together and avoiding a potentially crushing defeat by Donald Trump, others still criticize him for the way he handled the negative post-debate reaction.
A Democratic official said Biden continually sees himself as a victim, especially after the party and even Barack Obama asked him not to run in the 2016 primary against Hillary Clinton.
“There’s a dynamic and a psychology here that we don’t fully understand other than, ‘I got screwed in 2016 and I’m not getting screwed a second time,’” the anonymous insider claimed.
An anonymous Democratic official has criticized Joe Biden for “playing the victim,” amid calls for him to withdraw from the race while allowing his son Hunter (pictured right) to play the victim himself.
The mysterious official was also baffled by how Biden has turned his troubled, now-convicted son Hunter into one of his most trusted advisers since the disastrous debate in Atlanta.
“His whole life he’s tried to protect Hunter, to encourage Hunter to stand up, to encourage Hunter to be the person he wants him to be. And now Hunter is doing just that. He’s standing up. And who is he protecting? It’s not the father protecting the son. It’s the son protecting the father,” they said.
“And there’s a moment of bonding that none of us quite understand. Suddenly you have something that the father has wanted his whole life with his son, and he finally gets it in a strange way.”
That “weird” manner also involves Hunter joining in on the self-pity party his father seems to be throwing.
‘He and his son play this victim role – “I was abused under [Barack] “Obama.”
“It’s crazy,” they continued. “He’s not abused. But he’s conjuring this up in his head and once it’s there, it’s very hard to get it out.
“He’s always played this victim role, and sometimes that’s true. In this case, it’s just not true,” they added, according to Politics.
However, some leading Democrats agree that Biden has been the victim in this case.
A Democratic official said Biden continually sees himself as a victim, especially after the party and even Barack Obama asked him not to run in the 2016 primary against Hillary Clinton.
Biden and Obama attend a basketball game with Joe’s son Hunter in 2010
Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, one of Biden’s most ardent defenders since the debate, fiercely criticized the decision and those calling for the president to resign.
He laughed at the idea that Biden had been “unseated” by recently convicted New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez, a frequent target of Fetterman’s ire.
“People have put an honorable man, a loving father, and a great president in front of an absolute scumbag like Menendez. Congratulations,” he said Blessing.
Jasmine Crockett, a Texas congresswoman, also appeared bewildered by Biden’s decision and those who wanted him gone.
She posted on social media: “I hope the geniuses who fired the most influential president in our lifetime have a plan. WHO the hell couldn’t sell the MF Accomplishments and convince a 34 time convicted felon who can’t even run a business in the state of NY (and therefore should automatically be disqualified from running the country) and his ENTIRE team IS project 2025?! Joe wasn’t the problem… the Democrats were.”
Crockett immediately endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris — as Biden did Sunday afternoon — while Fetterman has not yet done so.
Biden dramatically withdrew on Sunday and endorsed Kamala Harris as the party’s standard-bearer against Trump in November.
He announced his drastic decision in a one-page letter posted on social media, in which he promised to continue his term until the end of this term in January.
Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, one of Biden’s most ardent defenders since the debate, criticized the decision and those calling for the president to resign.
Jasmine Crockett, a Texas congresswoman, also seemed bewildered by Biden’s decision and those who wanted him gone
However, Republicans called on him to resign immediately, arguing that if he is not “fit to run,” he is also “not fit to serve.”
“It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your president,” Biden wrote in a letter posted to his X account on Sunday.
“And while it was my intention to be re-elected,” he continued, “I believe it is in the best interests of my party and the country that I step down and focus solely on fulfilling the duties of my president for the remainder of my term.”
Although Biden was immediately under pressure, the shock announcement came as a surprise and appeared to catch many of his own aides and supporters in Congress by surprise.
“No one was aware of this before the tweet went out,” a Biden campaign aide told DailyMail.com. “I think that’s an insane way to treat the 1,300 people who work for your campaign.”
Earlier on Sunday, several of Biden’s allies said over the air that the president would not resign and would continue his re-election campaign.
Biden said in his letter that he would discuss his decision in more detail in remarks to the nation later this week. He also sent a quick follow-up post urging Harris to take over his campaign.
Last week, Biden was pulled from the campaign trail after being diagnosed with COVID-19 for the third time in the midst of a West Coast swing, fueling further speculation that he would soon drop out of the race.
Moments after his announcement, Biden posted an endorsement on X for Harris to take over his campaign
Biden announced his historic decision to step down in a one-page letter promising to finish his term, but he stopped short of fully endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris as his replacement.
That happened after the confrontation with Trump last month, in which Biden was often seen in a split screen with his mouth open and a blank look.
As the President stood at the podium speaking, he stumbled, froze, lost his train of thought and mumbled answers to questions from the moderator.
At one point, just 12 minutes into the debate, Trump said, “I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don’t think he knows what he said either.”
Trump then went to a post-debate rally in Chesapeake, Virginia, where he said he was skeptical that Biden would actually drop out of the race, arguing that Democrats have no better option against him in November.
The former president responded directly to Biden’s decision in a phone call with CNN on Sunday.
“He’s the worst president in the history of our country,” the former president said. “He’s going to go down as the worst president in the history of our country.”
Trump added that he thinks Harris will be even easier to beat than Biden.