Biden claims 'Democratic Party is back' after election, says late son 'should have been the president, not me'

Former President Joe Biden told Nebraska Democrats connected Friday that their enactment "is back" aft a bid of sweeping predetermination wins past week and besides accused President Donald Trump of destroying the Constitution and cutting wellness attraction and nutrient assistance for millions of Americans.

Biden, 82, speaking astatine the Nebraska Democratic Party’s "Ben Nelson Gala" successful Omaha, besides urged Republicans to extremity the ongoing authorities shutdown and said his precocious son, Beau Biden, should person been president, not himself.

"The Democratic Party is back. That's not hyperbole," Biden said. "Did you spot the predetermination results?"

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Former President Joe Biden speaks during the "Ben Nelson Gala" connected Nov. 7, 2025, successful Omaha, Neb.  (AP Photo/Rebecca S. Gratz)

Rep. Mikie Sherrill, D-N.J. and erstwhile Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., won gubernatorial races successful their respective states, portion Democratic socialist campaigner Zohran Mamdani scored a stunning triumph to go New York City’s adjacent mayor. The wins came a twelvemonth aft erstwhile Vice President Kamala Harris suffered a stinging decision to Trump. 

Harris was propelled to the apical of the 2024 Democratic statesmanlike summons aft Biden backed retired of the contention pursuing a blistering statement show against Trump. 

"Well, the American radical are sending a message, a connection to Trump and to his crowd," Biden said, accusing the president of trampling connected ideology and moving for the rich.

"I conscionable privation you to cognize you enactment for us, Mr. President. We don't enactment for you," Biden said. "You enactment for us, not conscionable billionaires and millionaires. You know, this is democracy. And the information of the substance is that determination are nary kings successful democracies. None. None. But you enactment successful a mode that embarrasses the nation."

Biden said Trump and the GOP were cutting wellness attraction programs and driving up costs, adding that much than 300 agrarian hospitals successful America, including 2 successful Nebraska, are expected to unopen down.

An excavator works to wide rubble aft the East Wing of the White House was demolished connected Oct. 23, 2025, successful Washington, D.C.  (Eric Lee/Getty Images)

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"Folks, I've ne'er said this my full career. I deliberation it's immoral. It's un-American. It's flat-out wrong," Biden said.

Biden, who had a bandage connected his head, referred to his ain conflict with crab and praised the wellness attraction workers who person been treating him. He was diagnosed with signifier 4 prostate crab earlier this year.

"I cognize what crab probe means. Cancer. It’s each family. It deed my household hard, conscionable arsenic truthful galore of yours," Biden said. "When the emotion of my life, my oldest son, the lawyer wide of the authorities of Delaware, who should person been the president, not me, volunteered to spell to Iraq for a year, didn’t person to, came backmost with signifier 4 glioblastoma due to the fact that helium lived successful a pain pit conscionable similar those guys did connected 9/11, and helium died."

Biden besides took purpose astatine Trump’s plans to physique a caller ballroom astatine the White House aft bulldozing the East Wing, calling it "the cleanable awesome of his presidency."

"When I near the presidency, President Trump was going to instrumentality a wrecking shot to the country, but I had nary thought it would beryllium an existent wrecking ball," Biden said. "Anyone spot what he's done to the East Wing of the people’s house? Trump has taken a wrecking shot not lone to the people’s house, but to the Constitution, to the regularisation of law, to our precise democracy."

Zohran Mamdani delivers a triumph code astatine a mayoral predetermination nighttime ticker party, connected Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025, successful New York City.  (Yuki Iwamura/AP)

He besides accused Trump of "deliberately making hunger worse" and claimed "one successful 5 children spell to furniture bare each night."

He mocked Trump for holding a "Great Gatsby" themed Halloween enactment astatine Mar-a-Lago portion cutting nutrient assistance for millions, saying it showed "who helium is."

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"On Friday, everyone dressed up similar the affluent folks they are from the Roaring Twenties and connected Saturday helium chopped assistance to 40 cardinal Americans," Biden said.

The White House did not instantly respond to a Fox News Digital petition for comment.