Former first lady Jill Biden claimed in a new interview Sunday that she was “shocked” that then-Vice President Kamala Harris lost to Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, adding that she still believes the Californian “would be a good president.”
“I was certain she was going to win,” Jill told interviewer Rita Braver on CBS News “Sunday Morning” ahead of the Tuesday release of her memoir “View from the East Wing.”
“You were?” a surprised-sounding Braver asked.
“The excitement for her and the crowds and, I mean, how people rallied around her, and I truly felt that she was going to win,” Biden continued. “I was shocked she didn’t win, because I think she would be a good president.”
The former first lady added that “I went to bed” on Election Night and “I just, I couldn’t believe that she had lost.”
Harris, considered a top contender for the 2028 Democratic nomination, became the party’s first nominee in 20 years to lose the popular vote, while Trump received 326 Electoral College votes, the most by any GOP nominee since George H.W. Bush in 1988.
In the aftermath of the Democrats’ defeat, which came despite Harris raising $1 billion in the six weeks after former President Joe Biden ended his bid for a second term on July 21, 2024, sources told The Post that “people didn’t connect” with the former senator and state attorney general of California.
“She was a s–t candidate and Trump made her look worse than Hillary Clinton,” one source said at the time, adding that Joe Biden “got pushed out for an empty pantsuit. At least Biden beat Trump and Hillary Clinton had more balls than either of them.”
Harris and Jill Biden have had an up-and-down relationship dating back to the 2020 Democratic primary campaign, during which Harris attacked Joe Biden over his past opposition to school desegregation busing.
“With what he cares about, what he fights for, what he’s committed to, you get up there and call him a racist without basis?” Jill Biden told supporters on a conference call. “Go f–k yourself.”
After Joe Biden secured the Democratic nomination, Jill reportedly came out strongly against choosing Harris as his running mate, complaining: “There are millions of people in the United States. Why do we have to choose the one who attacked Joe?”
