The former House speakeri said there could have been an "open primary" had President Biden stepped aside earlier.
The 46th President is one of the best one-term leaders in U.S. history. But Trump's reelection hangs over everything Biden achieved.
President-elect Donald Trump has won Arizona, NBC News projects, putting its 11 electoral votes in his column after he narrowly lost the state to President Joe Biden in 2020.
The former House Speaker also seemed to reject any analysis blaming Democrats for their election loss on a failure to win over working families.
The migrants participated in two Biden programs that created legal pathways to enter the U.S. and punished those who crossed the border illegally.
Such a meeting is traditional, but Trump, a Republican, did not host Biden, a Democrat, for a sit-down after the 2020 election.
Joe Biden doomed Kamala Harris' presidential campaign when he opted to run for a second term, podcaster and former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau argued.
President Biden extended the invitation to his former rival as part of a longstanding tradition to help ease the transition to a new administration.
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 powerful former speaker of the House suggested the Democrats could have fared better if the president stood down as candidate sooner.