PRESIDENT Joe Biden has been slammed for tarnishing his own legacy following his speech after Tuesday’s presidential election saw Donald Trump return to the White House.
The president was speaking in the Rose Garden after his vice president, Kamala Harris, suffered a heavy defeat in the election, and appears to be on course to lose every swing state to Trump.
Biden praised Harris during his brief address from the White House and promised an orderly transition of power in January.
But he was slammed by mainstream media outlets, with even CNN claiming he had tarnished his own legacy.
Shermichael Singleton, a CNN contributor who has worked on three different campaigns, warned that the Democrats needed to do a great deal of soul-searching.
“The Democratic Party of the past is no longer the Democratic Party of today,” he said.
He also called out Biden’s claims that he was leaving office with the economy far stronger than when he took office, especially in rural areas where Trump’s vote was highest.
“Economic dislocation is still a very real thing,” he said.
“It’s why, I would argue, a vast majority of people voted for Trump over the Vice President.
“I think it’s why Donald Trump was able to increase his margins with Latinos. Specifically Latino men.”
With the vast majority of votes counted, Trump has improved his margins across the board, including in all of the major swing states.
He also increased his vote share massively in safe blue states such as New York and New Jersey.
Harris is poised to win New Jersey by just five points – a state where Biden secured a 16-point lead in 2020.
Singleton, a conservative, called on the Democrats to undergo an “autopsy,” similar to what he says the Republicans did after Mitt Romney lost to Barack Obama in 2012.
He added that Trump had won because he was able to reach out to traditional Democratic voters, including workers who “work with their hands.”
Biden stepped aside in July and announced his support for his running-mate Harris, following a doddery debate performance and criticisms about his age.
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