US election briefing: Democrats pick through defeat with blame falling on Biden and economy

This is the president who has been the only person [who] has been able to beat Donald Trump.”

Biden’s press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, pushed back on the

I'll give you a little secret, he hates her, he can't stand her

They resurrected video of Trump declaring during the September 10 presidential debate

I said you know this guy's starting to look sharper,

he told the crowd

Maybe the Democrats should try to a have a free and fair primary election to determine their next presidential nominee.

He wrote on X

We don't pay much attention to what Nancy Pelosi says anymore, she's not in power, and she won't be for a long time,

Johnson said on Fox News Wednesday night

There was something wrong with him

McCarthy recounted after meeting with the president

There is not a thing that comes to mind,

Harris said when asked if there was anything she would have differently than Biden during his presidency

It is very clear that Kamala Harris's association with Joe Biden and the Biden-Harris administration hurt her,

Roth Smith said

In general, for a Democratic candidate running in this environment, I think that would be challenging,

Doug Sosnik, a longtime advisor to Bill Clinton, told Business Insider

People went on record saying all sorts of things on the advice of activists, advocates, pundits, and sometimes pollsters, that catered to the left-wing of the party, the base of the party,

Roth Smith said

Would you say you and your family are better off now than you were four years ago?"

A pre-election Gallup Poll showed how dour Americans' moods were when asked the question

It was a historic victory, and it was a complete and utter repudiation of both Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party's platform and positions,

Ryan Ryan Williams, who worked on Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign, told Business Insider

Will the big money interests and well-paid consultants who control the Democratic Party learn any real lessons from this disastrous campaign?”

the Vermont independent said

I'm so proud of her. I don't think people realize how hard it is to get to where she was. As a woman, getting elected DA, it's not easy guys."

Composing herself, she continues

People don't trust women to be in charge of making decisions about life and death and crime and being frankly a supervisor in some ways over police,

McCaskill said

I'm just very proud of her,

McCaskill's voice began to quiver and her eyes become teary as she concluded ... again removing her glasses to wipe her eyes

Only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. … Let us fill the sky with the light of a brilliant, brilliant, billion of stars,

Harris said

You could not have run a better campaign in that short period of time,

Reid said

[I]t was necessary for the Democratic nominee to separate him or herself from an unpopular incumbent, as much as we love Joe Biden,

Moulton told Politico

In the eyes of the American people, [Walz] was the governor who oversaw the [George Floyd] protests in Minnesota and probably let it go on longer than he should have. So that has been seared in the minds of the American people,

she added