Former President Joe Biden revealed Thursday in his second TV interview after leaving the White House that he “wasn’t surprised” President Trump trounced Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.
“I wasn’t surprised, not because I didn’t think the vice president wasn’t the most qualified person to be president. She is,” Biden said during an, at times awkward and halting, appearance on ABC’s “The View.”
The ousted Democratic leader then asserted that had he not bowed out of the last presidential contest, he would have won — pointing to Trump getting “7 million fewer votes” nationwide than in their 2020 matchup.
“A lot of people didn’t show up,” Biden said of the 2024 election.
Trump flipped the so-called “blue wall” states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin as well as Arizona, Nevada and Georgia that he’d lost to Biden four years prior to win last November against Harris.