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 Democratic Party now finds itself grappling with how it lost so definitively, and how it so thoroughly misunderstood the American electorate.

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.

As for Harris’ loss, Biden praised her for running an “inspiring” campaign and said the country got to see what he had learned early on about Harris, that she has “true character” and “a backbone like a ramrod.” Biden said “we accept the choice” the country made.

U.S. President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump will meet on Wednesday at the White House on Biden's invitation, a White House spokesperson said on Saturday.

President Biden extended the invitation to his former rival as part of a longstanding tradition to help ease the transition to a new administration.

The former House Speaker also seemed to reject any analysis blaming Democrats for their election loss on a failure to win over working families.

Joe Biden had mapped out a game plan for his final months as president. Then a series of cascading crises intruded.

Such a meeting is traditional, but Trump, a Republican, did not host Biden, a Democrat, for a sit-down after the 2020 election.