Former President Joe Biden admitted to The View panelists that he wasn’t surprised by Kamala Harris’s defeat at the hands of Donald Trump, but not because he didn’t think she was qualified.
The moment came as Biden visited the show Thursday, his first American TV appearance since leaving the White House in January. After Sarah Haines asked him if he was surprised Harris had lost, he shockingly said he wasn’t.
“I wasn’t surprised, not because I didn’t think she was qualified. She is. I was surprised because it went the sexist route. This is a woman, she’s this she did I’ve never seen quite a successful and consistent campaign undercutting the notion that a woman couldn’t run the country, and a woman of mixed race,” answered the ex-commander-in-chief.
Earlier in the show, Biden insisted that he could have beaten Trump if he remained in the election, saying Trump lost by “7 million fewer votes.”
Read the exchange here:
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: Well, Mr. President, you had previously said you thought that you would have won. Since then Donald Trump won all the battleground states and made inroads to every demographic toworking class voters to hispanic men, to black men. Knowing what you know now do you think you would have beat him.
JOE BIDEN: Yeah, he still got seven million fewer votes — a lot of people didn’t show up — No. 1. No. 2, they were very close in those toss-up states, it was — it wasn’t a slam dunk, and so, look, you know, every time I’ve been on the show, which I’ve been fortunate to be on more than once, thanks for having me, is that we talk — you guys don’t focus on as much and I think it’s good, on polling numbers, but let me put it this way: He’s had the worst 100 days any president’s ever had.
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