More than 100 days after Donald Trump’s return to the Presidency, former President Joe Biden has intervened in the electoral loss of former Vice President Kamala Harris 2024.

During an episode on Thursday of “The View”, Biden reflected on his withdrawal of the race last July, Harris’s 107 -day campaign as his successor and the result.

The presenter Sara Haines asked the former blank president: “Why do you think the vice president lost and surprised you?”

Biden replied that “he was not surprised” by the result despite believing that Harris complied with the qualifications for the paper.

“I was not surprised because they took the sexist route, the whole route. [of a] The campaign that undermines the notion that a woman could not lead the country, and a mixed woman, ”he said.

The then Vice President Kamala Harris and then President Joe Biden join on January 15, 2025.
The then Vice President Kamala Harris and then President Joe Biden join on January 15, 2025.

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Biden reiterated that while he was “very disappointed”, he was not yet surprised. ” What surprised him, he said, was “the success they have gone in some of the attacks they have made.”

During the 2024 campaign, critics questioned everything from Harris’s racial identity to his education and even if he really worked in McDonald’s.

The former president also said that he and Harris speak “often”, pointing out that he had recently “sought his opinion” for a reason that he refused to reveal.

“He has a difficult decision to make about what he is going to do,” Biden said about Harris’s next movement. “I hope it remains completely compromised. I think it’s first class.”

He ended with an encouraging note, saying that he is still “optimistic” about Harris’s future.

During the interview, Biden, later accompanied by his wife, former first lady Jill Biden, also spoke frankly about “hurtful” attacks against her cognition, saying that there was “nothing to maintain” concerns about her physical state for office.

His wife added his own perspective.

“Being president is not like a job. It’s a lifestyle,” he said. “You live it 24 hours a day. That phone may sound at 11:00 at night or 2:00 in the morning. It’s constant. You never leave it. And Joe worked very hard.”