Biden’s Goodest Job

‘I’ll feel as long as I gave it my all and I did the goodest job as I know I can do, that’s what this is about.” So goes President Biden’s response to George Stephanopoulos’s question near the end of the ABC interview last Friday: “And if you stay in and Trump is elected and everything you’re warning about comes to pass, how will you feel in January?” Or so went the line, anyway, which immediately became the most discussed moment of the 22-minute event.

That night, Axios, under the headline “Biden at peace if he loses to Trump: ‘As long as I gave it my all,’” promulgated without comment a slightly different transcription: “I’ll feel, as long as I gave it my all, and I did as good a job as I know I can do, that’s what this is about.”

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Joshua T. Katz

Joshua T. Katz is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

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‘I’ll feel as long as I gave it my all and I did the goodest job as I know I can do, that’s what this is about.” So goes President Biden’s response to George Stephanopoulos’s question near the end of the ABC interview last Friday: “And if you stay in and Trump is elected and everything you’re warning about comes to pass, how will you feel in January?” Or so went the line, anyway, which immediately became the most discussed moment of the 22-minute event.

That night, Axios, under the headline “Biden at peace if he loses to Trump: ‘As long as I gave it my all,’” promulgated without comment a slightly different transcription: “I’ll feel, as long as I gave it my all, and I did as good a job as I know I can do, that’s what this is about.”