President Joe Biden exits the White House with a record of accomplishment but also lingering resentment toward some onetime allies who pushed him from the race. And he’ll depart amid a strained relationship with his No.

So as we anticipate what could be the immensely consequential presidency of Donald Trump, we should close the books on this particular question. There’s never any way to prove counterfactuals, but we do have some pretty solid data rebutting Biden’s apparent belief that his self-defenestration saved Trump from defeat.

The mistake we made was, I think I made, was not getting our allies to acknowledge that ‘the Democrats did this,‘” Biden said. “So, for example, build a new billion-dol