Democrats struggle with the re -emergence of Biden

Former President Joe Biden reappeared in the public’s eyes with two consecutive interviews, sharing his diagnosis of the pungent electoral losses of the Democrats, defending his mental acuity, which was fiercely questioned at the end of his mandate, and during the definition of his version of his more than three political decades.

And while some Democrats say that there is “a place for Joe Biden at the table”, others say that it is better for him to be out of the spotlight and that the religit of his campaign stagnates the party.

Addressing ABC’s “The View” on Thursday, Biden took responsibility for the historic return of President Donald Trump to the White House and postponed the allegations of cognitive decline of his last year in power. He also addressed his next steps, saying that he “put himself in the square by trying to understand what the most significant and most consecutive role I can play, coherent with what I have done in the past”.

Part of this reflection will take the form of a book he said he was starting to write now. But some Democrats are torn apart if the book and some appearances with the media like their contribution to the end.

The long -standing allies of the former president have told ABC News that they welcome the return of Biden and that the defender of him to defend and define his achievements and to publicly define his reputation and his achievements.

“He has a responsibility and certainly the right to defend his assessment. Biden would be beyond crazy just to leave his balance sheet quietly because it was done last week,” Democratic representative Jim Clyburn told ABC News. Clyburn said he was unable to watch Biden on “The View”, but that he was “happy” to see Biden there.

The former president of the National Democratic Committee, Jamie Harrison, also said that he had been encouraged by the recent appearances of Biden – another was With the BBC earlier this week.

“Seeing Joe Biden reminds me that our president can be a good decent and honest leader. It reminds me that we have had presidents with slight majorities who have legislated to protect the environment, stabilized and cultivated the economy, created new jobs, reduces the cost of health care, invested in our infrastructure and respecting the history of our country. at first.

The veteran democratic strategist Donna Brazile, former interim president of the DNC, said that she had welcomed Biden returning to the public square and stressed the frequent invocation by the former president of Trump as the main reason why Biden should answer.

Brazile, a current ABC News contributor, added that Biden had remained relatively silent during the first 100 days of Trump in power this quarter, honoring an unwritten presidential tradition, and stressed that Biden deserved a platform.

“There is a place for Joe Biden at the table, and we have to recognize him,” said Brazile. “It is not because you are a former president that you have to somehow disappear. The former presidents have the right to speak.”

Brazile had a concern: that the party would lean only one voice to register in this period of reconstruction – a habit she said that she found it reckless. Instead, Brazile said that she hoped that it will become an era when a “new group of leaders” emerges.

Ken Martin, the current president of the DNC, expressed his gratitude for Biden in a statement to ABC: “No democratic president has invested more in the party infrastructure than Joe Biden, and I am deeply grateful for the service of the president not only to our nation but at his current service to the party.”

Jamie Selzler, member of the DKO DKOA DNC and former executive director of the State Democratic Party, did not agree with certain points raised in his interview on “The View”, especially that he could have prevailed on Trump.

Selzer as well as other Democrats say that despite their ruptures of Biden’s vision on past campaigns, think that it should be part of the party’s future.

“We need more voices in this fight, no less, and the voice of President Biden is welcome,” said Selzer.

Other blocks of the party are much more critical, some Democrats told ABC News that they find the defensive of the incursion of the former president and an erroneous distraction.

A democratic strategist said they believed that Biden Mal manages his role and stagnates the party.

As long as the conversations revolve around Biden, the strategist, who has experience at Congress and presidential campaigns, said: “We cannot go ahead as a country or party”.

“He doesn’t really tell his own story. He fights with everyone to tell his story,” said the strategist.

This strategist said they thought Biden should follow the traces of a less vocal post-slarc house of former presidents such as Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. This person said Biden should focus his attention on his possible presidential library and foundation.

“These first 100 days, these first six months, like this first calendar year, everything will be political questions. You no longer have to answer them. You should no longer answer them,” said the strategist about Biden. “Democrats are talking a lot about how Donald Trump has ruined standards. Joe Biden ruins some sort of standards with the way of being a former president right now.”

The main democratic strategist, Sawyer Hackett, told ABC News that even if Biden had the right to defend his inheritance, to religrate campaign losses or, to his estimate, “to rewrite political history”, is entirely useless and the stress that the party desperately needs to move forward.

“The Democratic Party endeavors to withdraw from the political desert in which we were left under the stewardship of Joe Biden. It is completely delusional and extremely useless for Biden of poetic waxing on the way in which he could have beat Trump, taking into account the terrible straits in which he left our coalition,” said Hackett.

For Hackett, Biden will best serve his fellow Democrats on the wings.

“The most consecutive role that Biden can play is an out-of-stage, far from the spotlight in domestic policy,” he said.