Some Biden allies are publicly upset and furious after he was pushed out of the race

“I hope the geniuses that pushed the most consequential President of our lifetime out have a plan,” said Crockett on X.

“Joe wasn’t the problem… dems were,” she continued.

Crockett also supported Harris to be the new nominee, saying she would refuse to campaign if anybody else was chosen.

Axios reported, citing unnamed sources, that Biden himself felt isolated, frustrated, and betrayed as he reached the decision to withdraw.

“It was fury for a while. Then he surrendered to reality. He’s a professional,” an unnamed friend of the president told the outlet.

Biden said for weeks that he wouldn’t quit, but relented on Sunday, saying it was “in the best interest of my party and the country”

Those who media reports name as having urged him to quit or reconsider included former President Barack Obama, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.

Even before Biden announced he was quitting the race Sunday, allies were criticizing what they characterized as a campaign by party elites to oust him.

One critic, speaking on condition of anonymity, told NBC News that it may have been a double blow for Biden.

To that source, recent events felt like a rerun of 2015, when Biden was persuaded not to run in the 2016 election and Hillary Clinton secured the nomination.

Clinton crashed to a shock defeat by Trump.

Biden defeated him in 2020, and the Democrats outperformed expectations in the 2022 midterms.

“Can we all just remember for a minute that these same people who are trying to push Joe Biden out are the same people who literally gave us all Donald Trump,” a source close to Biden told NBC News.

“In 2015, [Barack] Obama, [Nancy] Pelosi, [Chuck] Schumer pushed Biden aside in favor of Hillary [Clinton]; they were wrong then, and they are wrong now.”

The decision throws the party into turmoil just months before the presidential election.