Biden Family Mounts Legacy Push After 2024 Loss as Democrats Split Over 83-Year-Old's Return
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Updated · Fox News · Jun 14
Biden Family Mounts Legacy Push After 2024 Loss as Democrats Split Over 83-Year-Old's Return
1 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jun 14
Summary
New York Magazine said Biden’s family and inner circle have launched an “aggressive effort” to recast his presidency beyond the 2024 defeat that returned Donald Trump to the White House.
June 5 in Sioux Falls, Biden addressed about 1,200 Democrats, attacking Trump and drawing a warm reception even as the report said he sometimes spoke softly, shouted and lost his train of thought.
Rufus Gifford, who now chairs Biden’s presidential library board, argued the party is moving past its “’24 hangover,” while Jill Biden reentered the debate with her early-June memoir and a public rebuke of ex-spokesman Andrew Bates.
Democratic critics tied the rehabilitation push to the party’s 2024 trauma: a former Biden staffer said his second-term bid enabled Trump’s return, and David Axelrod warned a comeback could revive memories of why he left the race.
The renewed public campaign unfolds as Biden, 83, remains under scrutiny after his office disclosed in May 2025 that he had aggressive prostate cancer that had spread to his bones.