Former President Joe Biden stopped by this morning’s episode of The View to talk about his party’s failed campaign just over 100 days into President Donald Trump‘s return to the White House.
Last July, Biden announced that he would be withdrawing himself from the 2024 presidential election, leaving then-Vice President Kamala Harris just over three months to campaign for the Democratic Party. While Democrats were feeling optimistic about her chances of being Trump, she ended up losing the electoral vote, the popular vote, and every key swing state when the results were counted in November 2024.
“I wasn’t surprised — not because I didn’t think the Vice President was the most qualified person to be president,” Biden said on this morning’s episode of The View. “She is. She’s qualified to be the President of the United States of America.”
“But I wasn’t surprised because they went the sexist route the whole route,” he continued, referring to Trump’s campaign. “This is a woman, she’s this, she’s that. Really, I’ve never seen quite as successful and consistent a campaign undercutting the notion that a woman couldn’t lead the country — and a woman of mixed race.”
When Harris lost the race, Democrats wondered what they could’ve done differently. Should Biden have stepped aside sooner to allow more time for her to campaign? Or would their party have won if he had stood firm in his place and continued to run for a second term?
Looking back, Biden believes he would’ve beaten Trump had he stayed in the race since the current POTUS “still got 7 million fewer votes” than he did when they ran against each other in 2020.
“A lot of people didn’t show up, number one,” Biden said. “Number two, they were very close in those toss-up states. It wasn’t a slam dunk.”
Biden added, “He’s had the worst 100 days that any president has ever had. I would not say honesty has been a strong point,” noting that “liberal democracies all across the world lost” when Trump was re-elected as president.
The View airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.
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