Biden hememits a ‘close’ relationship with Harris, but ‘not surprised’ with the loss of his election

Former President Joe Biden, in a broad interview on ABC’s “The View” on Thursday said he was not surprised by the loss of Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, but not because of his qualifications as a candidate, referring to sexism and racism which he said had been raised against him.

“I was not surprised, not because I did not think the vice president was the most eligible person to become president … I was not surprised because they took sexist routes, all routes,” Biden said.

He continued: “I have never seen a fairly successful and consistent campaign, underestimating the idea that a woman cannot lead a country – and a mixed race woman.”

But Biden, separately, said he still thought he would defeat Trump if he remained in the race.

“Yes, he still gets seven million fewer votes,” Biden said about Trump, noting how much he defeated Trump in the popular election of the 2020 election.

His comments emerged after a few months out of the spotlight for the former president when he and Democrats tried to sort out his role after the president. Last month, Biden emerged from a personal life to deliver speeches about the potential impact of Trump on social security and appeared at Harvard University.

The question remains in the party’s priority and who might be the best to send messages and communicate in the name of Democrats – questions that extend to Biden and Harris.

Biden, in his part, said “The View” that he was in the midst of self-reflection-and, for that, writing a book.

“Everything moves and we will go try to find out what the most significant and consequence roles that I can play, consistent with what I have done in the past,” he said.

The former president also discussed his relationship with the former candidate who turned into a candidate, said that he and Harris had spoken recently on Wednesday. However, he quickly stopped himself from discussing the specific conversation of their “often”, including side chat about the possibility of the Governor or the potential of the President’s potential Harris.

The source had told ABC News before that Harris might be pondering escape for the Governor of California, his home state; Others speculate that he can run for president in 2028 – a controversial idea in the Democratic Party.

Many Harris’s national supporters told ABC News in March that they were lukewarm who could potentially run for president in 2028; Others have called for full breakthroughs from the Biden-Harris administration and for parties to consider new standard carriers.

But in the wider future of Harris’s politics, Biden said he hoped that he would continue to be involved in a significant way, but stopped sharing which routes he hoped for.

“He has a difficult decision to make what he will do. I hope he remains fully involved. I think he is in the first grade, but we have many very good candidates too. So, I’m optimistic. I’m not pessimistic,” said Biden.

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“Joe Biden denied the fact that both he and Kamala Harris should be a 2024 Democratic candidate if we want to defeat Donald Trump. At present, voters demanded an authentic anti-peculing rate that would shake a damaged political system and the economic status that was produced for billionaires against people who worked, and that was not Biden or Harris.”

Asked on the “view” to respond to the claim that he should have come out of the race and support Harris faster, Biden said that Harris still had a long time to campaign and that they worked together “in every decision I made.”

Biden also denied reporting that claiming he had suggested Harris to suggest that there was no daytime between the two of them – saying that they were partners and worked together.

The “The View” Co-Undaor of Sunny Hostin expressed Harris’s comment about “The View” in October, towards the end of his president’s campaign, when asked whether he would do “something different” from what Biden had done for the past four years. He replied, “Nothing comes to mind,” For a moment seen as one who hurt him among voters who felt he needed to make a cleaner rest than the Biden White House.

“I don’t advise him to say that,” Biden said, adding that he thought Harris meant he would not change the success that had been achieved by the Biden-Harris White House.

“He is part of every success we have. We will argue like hell,” Biden added, emphasizing that the disagreement was all signs of positive work relationships.

Although he did not show the tension between himself and Harris, Biden did not answer directly when asked about the tension between him and other old supporters, including former President Barack Obama, whose government he served as Vice President.

Asked about what he was related to Obama now, and how he discussed Obama’s concerns and the others reportedly aroused his ability to serve the second term of office as president, Biden spinned for why he was out of the race – and did not mention Obama.

“The only reason I came out of the race was because I did not want to have a divided Democratic party … I think it is better to put the country over my interest, my personal interest,” Biden said.

Biden said, in his response, that concerns over his age – 81 during the campaign – valid, but referred to what he still achieved at the end of his presidency as evidence of the claim he had declined cognitively.

ABC News’ Alexandra Hutzler and Zohreen Shah contributed to this report.