Hillary Clinton’s criticism cuts at something deeper than one election cycle: the cost of clinging to power too long. By her telling, Biden’s choice to run again closed the door on a generation of Democrats waiting in the wings, and turned what could have been a vigorous primary into a rushed, improvised handoff to Kamala Harris after his campaign collapsed. In that vacuum, Donald Trump surged back, not because he was overwhelmingly loved, but because the alternative never had time to fully emerge, introduce themselves, and fight.
Hillary Clinton says Joe Biden made ‘terrible mistake’ running for reelection
