Joe Biden blames Kamala Harris' loss on sexism and racism, rejects age concerns

NEW YORK – Former President Joe Biden says he's liable for Donald Trump's triumph past fall, but helium attributed Kamala Harris ' loss, astatine slightest successful part, to sexism and racism.

Biden, who near bureau successful January, addressed the Democrats' disastrous 2024 election, concerns astir his property and Trump's divisive enactment during a Thursday interrogation connected ABC's “The View." The 82-year-old Democrat said helium has intentionally avoided speaking retired publically until this week to springiness Trump much than 100 days successful bureau without his interference, arsenic is typically the contented pursuing a alteration successful the White House.

Asked astir the past election, Biden said helium was amazed by the relation that helium sex and contention played successful the contest.

“They went the sexist route,” Biden said of disapproval that “a pistillate couldn't pb the state and a pistillate of mixed race.”

He added: “I was successful complaint and helium won, truthful I instrumentality responsibility."

Biden has mostly stepped distant from nationalist authorities since leaving the White House.

He's not expected to play a cardinal relation successful Democratic affairs arsenic the enactment turns to a new procreation of leadership, though helium acknowledged connected Thursday that helium has maintained regular interaction with Harris and has offered his guidance connected her governmental future.

“She’s got a hard determination to marque astir what she’s going to do. I anticipation she stays engaged,” Biden said, declining to stock his circumstantial advice.

Biden rejected concerns astir his cognitive diminution prompted by a disastrous statement show past June. He besides declined to knock the Democratic leaders who privately pressed him to wantonness his campaign.

“The lone crushed I got retired of the contention was due to the fact that I didn’t privation to person a divided Democratic Party," helium said, adding that the broader enactment didn't bargain into concerns astir his property pursuing the “terrible” statement performance, “but the Democratic enactment and immoderate of the precise important contributors did.”

Thursday's quality besides marked Biden's archetypal associated interrogation with erstwhile archetypal woman Jill Biden since leaving Washington. She rejected those who judge she created a protective cocoon astir her hubby portion successful bureau to support him from scrutiny astir his age.

“It was precise hurtful particularly from immoderate of our alleged friends," she said of the criticism.

“I was with Joe time and nighttime … and I did not make a cocoon astir him," she continued. “You saw him successful the Oval Office. You saw him making speeches. He wasn’t hiding somewhere.”

Meanwhile, the erstwhile president did not clasp backmost erstwhile the speech turned to Trump's occupation performance.

“He’s had the worst 100 days immoderate president has ever had," Biden said.

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