“If they had advisers who had their hand on the pulse of the Democratic Party or national politics, they would have understood the intense level of anger or indifference to them that remains inside our party and isn’t going away anytime soon,” LaRosa said in a recent interview with

Democrats trying to find their way back from their 2024 election losses are taking aim at former President Biden for reemerging on the national stage. Biden came back into view this week to deliver his first public postpresidency speech after largely being absent from the political discussion. But some Democrats said they’d prefer the former president take a back seat as the party puts its shoulder into its rebuilding efforts.

While speaking at Harvard, Biden had to be corrected by his longtime adviser Mike Donilon when he mixed up Ukraine with Iraq when talking about the war with Russia, the Harvard Crimson reported. After the 82-year-old former president bit into an ice cream bar at the event, the partially eaten dessert fell to the floor, the Crimson noted.