Millions of voters who backed Joe Biden in 2020 apparently did not support Vice President Kamala Harris in this year's election. Harris suffered a heavy loss to Donald Trump in the 2024 race, with the Republican on course to win the popular vote and sweep all seven of the key swing states.

The Democratic Party now finds itself grappling with how it lost so definitively, and how it so thoroughly misunderstood the American electorate.

The 46th President is one of the best one-term leaders in U.S. history. But Trump's reelection hangs over everything Biden achieved.

The former House Speaker also seemed to reject any analysis blaming Democrats for their election loss on a failure to win over working families.

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump will meet on Wednesday in the Oval Office. The meeting will take place at 11:00 a.m., Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement. Biden invited the incoming president to meet. Trump won the presidential election on Tuesday with at least 301 electoral college votes.

As for Harris’ loss, Biden praised her for running an “inspiring” campaign and said the country got to see what he had learned early on about Harris, that she has “true character” and “a backbone like a ramrod.” Biden said “we accept the choice” the country made.

The former House Speaker also seemed to reject any analysis blaming Democrats for their election loss on a failure to win over working families.

President Biden extended the invitation to his former rival as part of a longstanding tradition to help ease the transition to a new administration.

Such a meeting is traditional, but Trump, a Republican, did not host Biden, a Democrat, for a sit-down after the 2020 election.