Hankies Out! PBS Asks Jon Meacham About the 'Tragedy' of Biden Trying to Run in '24
Tim Graham
May 27th, 2026 10:45 PM
On Tuesday’s PBS News Hour, they spent six minutes playing a fraction of their “Settle In” podcast interview with Democrat historian (and former Newsweek editor) Jon Meacham. Anchor Amna Nawaz and Meacham would explore the “state of our democracy,” which somehow always comes back around to how democracy and the Democrats are treated as the same thing. If the Democrats suffer, democracy suffers.
Meacham was explicit on Morning Joe in November of 2023: “It’s not just President Biden who is on the ballot and being judged, it’s really the entire constitutional order.... President Biden is a kind of stand-in for the American system.” So Nawaz awkwardly asked about the 2024 debacle:
AMNA NAWAZ: It's worth noting you're close to President Biden. You have called him a friend. You have called him an American hero. You have advised him on his speeches. Understanding there were a lot of other forces at play, the pandemic as you mentioned, and a lot of other things happening in the country bubbling up for a generation at least, how do you look back now on what President Biden as a leader and his administration did or didn't do that also helped to get us where we are today?
And not just the decision to run again, right, which has been called into question and examined a dozen different ways, but also maybe not going after some of the officials from the first Trump administration the way some Democrats wanted them to. How do you look at that now?
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2026/05/27/hankies-out-pbs-asks-jon-meacham-about-tragedy-biden-trying-run-24
