Democrats lost in the past November election because it broke from former President Joe Biden and "did not remain loyal to the leader of the party," according to Hunter Biden.
"You know what, we are going to fight amongst ourselves for the next three years until there's a nominee," Hunter Biden told former DNC Chair Jaime Harrison's podcast, The Hill reported Wednesday. "And then with the nominee, we better as hell get behind that nominee."
"And I will tell you why we lost the last election. We lost the election because we did not remain loyal to the leader of the party. That's my position," said Hunter Biden.
Democrats "melted down" by not respecting then-President Biden and the power of incumbency, he added.
"We had the advantage of incumbency, we had advantage of an incredibly successful administration, and the Democratic Party literally melted down," he said.
Hunter Biden's remarks come as his pardon has come into question over use of the autopen, but Biden was "consciously aware" of the autopen pardons, and The New York Times reported that the son's pardon was the lone lame-duck period pardon to be signed by the president's own hand.
The remarks also come just days after the one-year anniversary of the shooting of then-candidate Donald Trump that ultimately forced Biden out of the presidential race, handing the Democrat nomination to then-Vice President Kamala Harris without winning a single primary elector in the constitution's democratic process.
Biden did personally sign his letter stepping out of the race nearly one year to this day, and he would ultimately endorse Harris being crowned his successor as the DNC nominee — along with handing over the hundreds of millions of campaign financing.
But, as opposed to the Hunter Biden position of having abandon the democratically elected nominee, Democrats still argue Joe Biden should have stepped out of the race sooner. Harris was stuck with just a couple of months to put together a campaign to remain in the White House, albeit at the reported cost of more than $2 billion.
It was the most ever spent on a presidential campaign, including Trump's winning campaign, and it was in just 15 weeks and not 15 months.
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