Joe Biden reemerged this week with a slurred, muffled video announcement revealing his forthcoming presidential memoir, Promise Me, America. The rollout was awkward enough on its own. The timing makes it worse. The book hits shelves on November 17, which means he’ll be doing the book tour thing weeks in advance, reminding voters of his existence and why they voted to bring President Donald Trump back in the first place. I’m sure Democrats are not thrilled about it.
Heading into an election where the party desperately wants voters focused on anything but the disastrous Biden years, the last thing Democrats need is Biden dragging his failed presidency back into the spotlight. A nostalgia tour is the opposite of what this campaign needs right now.
Last month, CNN laid out exactly how bad that spotlight would be. The network’s chief data analyst, Harry Enten, broke down just how toxic the Biden brand has become, and the numbers were brutal.
"The American people have one message for the Bidens," Enten said. "That is, go away. Go away."
He continued, "In January of 2025, it was minus 22 points. Has it gone any better now? No, not really. He's still way underwater here at minus 19 points. He's 28 points underwater with independents."
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Enten put those numbers in historical context, and the comparison is brutal. Barack Obama left office with a net favorability of 31 points above water at a comparable point in his presidency. Even Jimmy Carter, whose presidency was a disaster in its own right, came in at plus 22. Bill Clinton, dragging plenty of personal baggage out of the White House, landed at just negative three, essentially breaking even with the public.
Biden is nowhere close to that. He's deep underwater, and a ghostwritten memoir isn't going to change it. The Bidens are political poison to their own party, and no amount of revisionist storytelling will erase what Americans witnessed during his term. The country delivered its verdict on Joe Biden long before he left office. Now he's forcing Democrats to relive it in the final stretch of a campaign they cannot afford to lose.
Here's the question worth asking: Was the timing a deliberate choice?
Back in 2024, reports surfaced that the party's push to force him out of the race left Biden furious, and he endorsed Kamala Harris as an act of revenge against his own party. Everyone could see that Biden did not want to drop out. Party leaders like Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Obama, along with the megadonor class, forced his hand. As we previously reported, party leaders essentially blackmailed Biden into stepping aside: drop out voluntarily, or face a push to invoke the 25th Amendment.
According to a source inside the Democrat Party, Biden's endorsement of Kamala was "Joe truly knifing Obama and Pelosi in the back for making him stand down."
A man that vindictive isn’t above planning a book launch at the worst possible moment for the party that shoved him out the door. It's not outside the realm of possibility that the release date is one final act of revenge, timed to do maximum damage to the party that scorned him.
