Can Democrats blame their problems all on Biden?

Party leaders who long tiptoed around Joe Biden’s health now seem to be settling on a new tack in explaining the 2024 loss to Trump: It’s all Biden’s fault.

Party leaders who long tiptoed around Joe Biden’s health and questions around senility now seem to be settling on a new tack in explaining the 2024 loss to Donald Trump: It’s all Biden’s fault. 

At least that was the chief reason put forward by Kamala Harris’ senior adviser, David Plouffe, in explaining what led to the November loss. 

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According to the forthcoming book "Original Sin," which NBC News obtained on Tuesday, Plouffe called the efforts to defeat Trump on a truncated timeline a “f---ing nightmare”  

“And it’s all Biden. He totally f---ed us,” Plouffe told the book’s authors, according to the excerpt. “We got so screwed by Biden as a party.”