Former President Joe Biden sat for an interview Wednesday with BBC Radio in which he seemed entirely oblivious to the role he—and his decision to run for a second term—played in the Democratic party’s loss to Donald Trump in 2024.

Start here: Biden said that the reason “it was hard to say, now I’m going to stop” was because his administration had been “so successful.”

While it’s far too early to judge Biden’s presidency in historical terms, the reality of the 2024 race is that voters did not see him as a successful president. At all.

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The last Gallup poll taken before his

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