Jill Biden stunned by Kamala Harris’ election loss despite rumored feud
Jill Biden sparked new controversy after she appeared to contradict comments from those behind the scenes of former Vice President Kamala Harris’ ill-fated 2024 election campaign for the White House. RadarOnline.com can reveal.
The former first lady, 74, said she truly believed Harris, 61, would prevail over Donald Trump.
“[On] on election night I was sure she would win,” said the wife of former President Joe Biden CBS Sunday morning‘s Rita Braver in an interview that aired May 31.
“The excitement for her and the crowd and, I mean, how people rallied around her, and I really felt like she was going to win,” Jill continued.
The longtime schoolteacher apparently had no contact with Harris’ own team, as senior campaign adviser David Plouffe confessed in late November 2024 that internal polling never showed the veep would be ahead.
“We were behind. I mean, I think it surprised people because there were public polls in late September, early October that gave us clues that we never saw,” he revealed at the Pod Save America podcast.
“I was shocked that she didn’t win, because I think she would be a good president,” Jill said of Harris during her CBS sit-down. “I just couldn’t believe she lost.”
The former White House resident said she had “pulled out all the stops” to campaign for Harris after Joe withdrew from the race for a second term in July 2024, amid mounting calls that he could not win after his disastrous debate performance against Trump the month before, which led to questions about his cognitive skills and mental strength.
‘I think I was on the road every day. I’ve traveled all over the country,” Jill claimed of her campaign for Harris.
The two women reportedly had a frosty relationship since the 2020 election. Harris went after Joe during the primary season over his opposition to federal mandates to end segregation when he was a young U.S. senator in the 1970s.
During a June 2019 debate, Harris told Joe, “I don’t believe you’re a racist,” but blasted him for working with two other senators to oppose busing.
“And you know, there was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools, and she was bused to school every day. And that little girl was me,” Harris scolded Joe.
“With what he cares about, what he fights for, what he is committed to, you stand up there and call him a baseless racist?” Jill mockingly told supporters on a conference call about Harris’ comments during the debate. “Go the fuck.”
That resulted in Jill developing a bitterness toward Harris, reportedly even complaining about her husband’s selection of the California senator as his running mate: “There are millions of people in the United States.” Why do we have to pick on the one who attacked Joe?”
The possible 2028 presidential candidate wrote in her 2025 memoir: 107 days, about the lack of support she felt she was getting from the Bidens’ inner circle while running in 2024.
“And if the stories were unfair or inaccurate, the president’s inner circle seemed to be fine with it…It seemed like they decided I needed to be beaten down a little more,” Harris claimed.
She also claimed that the president’s decision to stay in the race after the debate was due to Jill’s support, before he ultimately resigned on July 21, 2024.
“It’s Joe and Jill’s decision. We all said that, like a mantra, as if we were all hypnotized. Was it grace, or was it recklessness? In retrospect, I think it was recklessness,” she added.
