Former President Joe Biden told BBC Radio he doesn’t regret staying in the 2024 presidential race as long as he did because “I don’t think it would have mattered.”

Biden stepped down as the Democratic Party’s nominee, under pressure from party leaders, following his disastrous performance against Donald Trump in a televised June debate. Vice President Kamala Harris proceeded to lose handily to Trump in the November election despite Democrats holding a significant financial advantage.

In his first in-depth interview since leaving the White House in January, Biden claimed to BBC Radio’s Nick Robinson that his decision about whether to remain in the race or bow out “difficult” due to his term being “so successful.”

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