Democrats deal with Biden's resurgence

Democrats deal with Biden’s resurgence

Former President Joe Biden has once again been the public eye with two consecutive interviews, sharing his diagnosis of the electoral tips of the Democrats, defending his mental sharpness, which was questioned fiercely at the end of his mandate, and everything that defined his version of his political legacy of more than three decades in lengths.

And although some Democrats say that there is “a place for Joe Biden on the table,” others say that he is better that he is out of the center of attention and that the relationship with his campaign is stagnating the party.

Speaking to “The View” of ABC on Thursday, Biden assumed the responsibility of the historical return of President Donald Trump to the White House and delayed the statements of cognitive deterioration in his last year in office. He also addressed his next steps, saying that “he was separating trying to discover what is the most significant and consistent role that I can play, according to what I have done in the past.”

Part of that reflection will come in the form of a book that said he is beginning to write now. But some Democrats are torn as to whether the book and some appearances in the media are where they would like their final contributions.

Allies for a long time of the former president told ABC News to welcome the return of Biden and advocate him to strongly defend and define his reputation and achievements publicly.

Former President Joe Biden appears in The View of ABC News, on May 8, 2025.

ABC News

“He has a responsibility and certainly the right to defend his history. Biden would be beyond crazy only to let his registration be misrepresented as has been done every last week,” said Democratic Representative Jim Clyburn to ABC News. Clyburn said he couldn’t see Biden in “The View”, but he was “cheerful” to see Biden out there.

The former president of the National Democratic Committee, Jamie Harrison, also said he was encouraged by the recent Biden appearances, another of which was With the BBC earlier this week.

“Seeing Joe Biden reminds me that our president can be a good, decent and honest leader. It reminds me that we have had presidents with a slight major The United States in the United States, in one of the nation’s time.

The veteran Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, former interim president of the DNC, said he welcomed Biden to the public square and pointed out the frequent Trump invocation of the former president as a main reason why Biden should answer.

Brazile, a current ABC news collaborator, added that Biden remained relatively quiet during Trump’s first 100 days in the position of this term, in honor of an unwritten presidential tradition, and emphasized that Biden deserves a platform.

“There is a place for Joe Biden at the table, and we must recognize it,” said Brazile. “The fact that he is a former president does not mean that he has to disappear in some way or another. The former presidents have every right to speak.”

Brazile had a concern: that the party would look for a single voice to take signs of this reconstruction period, a habit that said it finds reckless. Instead, Brazile said this expects this to become a moment when a “new group of leaders.”

Former President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden appear in The View of ABC News, May 8, 2025.

ABC News

Ken Martin, the current president of the DNC, expressed his gratitude for Biden in a statement to ABC: “No Democratic president has invested more in the infrastructure of the party that Joe Biden, and I am deeply grateful for the president’s service not only for our nation but for his continuous service to the party.”

Jamie Selzler, DNC member of Dakota del Norte and former executive director of the State Democratic Party, did not agree with some points that Biden raised in his “The View” interview, particularly that he could have prevailed over Trump.

Even so, Selzer together with other Democrats say that despite his breaks from Biden’s vision of past campaigns, he feels that he should be part of the future of the party.

“We need more voices in this fight, no less, and the voice of President Biden is welcome,” said Selzer.

Other blocks of the party are much more critical, and some Democrats tell ABC News that find the incursion of the raid of the former president and a wrong distraction.

A Democratic strategist said he thinks Biden is badly handling his role and stagnating the party.

While the conversations revolve around Biden, the strategist, which has experience in Congress and presidential campaigns, said: “We cannot advance like a country or a party.”

“He is really not telling his own story. He is just fighting with everyone else for telling his story,” said the strategist.

This strategist said he believes that Biden should follow in the footsteps of the post-white house less vowels of former presidents such as Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. This person said Biden should focus their attention on their eventual library and presidential foundation.

“These first 100 days, these first six months, such as this first calendar year, everything will be political questions. You no longer have to answer them. You should not really answer them,” said Biden’s strategist. “The Democrats talk a lot about how Donald Trump has ruined the rules. Joe Biden is ruining many rules with how to be a former president at this time.”

The Senior Democrat Sawyer Hacktt strategist told ABC News that, although Biden has the right to defend its legacy, relate campaign losses or, in its estimate, “rewriting political history,” it is totally useless and stressed that the party has a desperate need to move forward.

“The Democratic Party is working to get out of the political desert in which we were under the administration of Joe Biden. It is completely delusional and extremely useless for drums to shave poetic about how Trump could have defeated Trump, given the terrible narrow in which he left our coalition,” said Hackett.

For hacktt, Biden will better serve other wings democrats.

“The most consistent role that Biden can play is one out of the stage, far from the attention of national policy,” he said.

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