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Total Vacuum’ of Leadership Caused by Biden’s Post-Election Silence: ‘Feels Like Trump Is President Already’

Biden’s low profile since the election has contributed to the sense of rudderlessness that’s taken hold across swaths of Washington, as lawmakers, aides and party officials brace for Trump’s return to power and seek a new direction and vision ahead of the midterms and 2028.

The White House and Biden, they say, has shown little interest in helping chart the party’s future beyond Jan. 20, the day of Trump’s inauguration. Biden has focused his aides’ energies largely on managing the presidential transition and tending to a few final items meant to burnish his legacy, including a speech on the economy Tuesday. And Vice President Kamala Harris, who cast herself on the campaign trail as the future of the party, has all but disappeared from the scene.

“There is no leadership coming from the White House,” one Democrat close to senior lawmakers stated bluntly. “There is a total vacuum.”

“In conversations that I’m having, they don’t even mention the president. It’s kind of sad,” said the Democrat close to senior lawmakers. “It feels like Trump is president already.”

Many party officials and staffers no longer track Biden’s daily activities or are even aware that he’s spent much of the last month out of the country. In the last week, the dominant conversation among them tied to the president has been about Hunter’s pardon, who got invitations to the White House holiday party and whether current and former White House staffers would get to take the traditional departure photo with the president.

“Democrats in Washington just want to get him and the people around him out the door,” said the former White House official. “All he’s done in the last year has hurt the party every step of the way.”

“If I were Biden, I would be looking at what they can do to not just protect members of his own family but to protect other Americans that are going to be under threat by the next administration,” Levin said. “[But] if there’s been that directive, I haven’t heard of it.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/09/biden-absent-washington-00192575