Former Transportation Secretary joins chorus of ex-Biden officials questioning the 46th president’s re-election bid.
In a revealing interview on “Meet the Press” with Kristen Welker, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg offered a candid assessment of former President Joe Biden’s decision to seek re-election, a move that has recently come under fire from other members of his former administration.
Buttigieg’s comments came in response to new excerpts from former Vice President Kamala Harris’s forthcoming book, where she described Biden’s re-election bid as potentially “reckless.”
“He should not have run,” Buttigieg stated directly, adding that if Biden had “made that decision sooner, we might have been better off.”
The former secretary’s remarks provided a powerful echo to Ha