Former Transport Secretary Pete Buttigieg said on Sunday that former President Joe Biden should not have run for reelection in 2024.
Buttigieg agreed with the allegations in former Vice President Kamala Harris’s new book, 107 Days, where she writes, “It’s Joe and Jill’s decision. We all said that like a mantra as if we’d all been hypnotized. Was it grace and recklessness? In retrospect, I think it was recklessness.”
“[Biden] should not have run, and if he had made that decision sooner, we might have been better off,” Buttigieg said on NBC News’s Meet the Press on Sunday. “But it literally was his decision. Nobody else was able to make that decision.”
“I was not included in the process of deciding whether the president should run. Again, he made that decision,” Buttigieg said. “I think I’m not alone in believing that he should have made the decision not to run sooner, but, look, we are where we are as a country and as a party right now.”
Harris is releasing a book about her brief campaign Sept. 23. As part of promoting her book, Harris is currently touring the country.
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“The stakes were simply too high. This wasn’t a choice that should have been left to an individual’s ego, an individual’s ambition,” Harris wrote of Biden.
Buttigieg has been floated among those vying for the Democratic nomination for president in 2028. Before he was nominated to Biden’s Cabinet, Buttigieg was the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and also ran to be the Democratic nominee for president in 2020.