Former press secretary of the White House, Karine Jean-Pierre, avoided him when he was asked by “The View” whether former President Biden President Donald Trump would have defeated if he had stayed in the 2024 race.
Co-hostal Alyssa Farah Griffin referred to how Jean-Pierre described the sudden democratic opposition against Biden after his rough debate performance in June as a “Fire squad” At an event for the Institute of Politics at Harvard University on Wednesday.
Griffin then asked the question: “Do you believe that Joe Biden would have won if he had stayed, and a follow -up, do you think Kamala Harris would have had a better shot if she had had more time?”
“I was asked a question, I answered it honestly and how I felt at the moment, I was the one who went to the stage almost every day after that happened, and it was shocking what I saw. But I can’t speculate, right? I don’t know what would have happened. I really want and I don’t want to do the past,” Jean-Pierre.
Former press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre of the White House joined the co-hosts of “The View” for her first interview after the WH. (Screenshot/ABC/TheView)
Jean-Pierre turned to Trump and emphasized that she did not want to look back and said that the country was in a “five alarm fire” under his presidency.
Griffin also tried to ask Jean-Pierre if she had access to polling that shows that Biden would have ” lost every swing. “
“That ship sailed,” the liberal fellow host Joy Behar walked into.
Jean-Pierre denied that she had real contact with the Biden campaign as a press secretary. She also did not answer Griffin’s question about whether Harris would have performed better if she had had more time.
“It matters, however, we can’t just wave our arms over Trump if it matters,” Griffin added, as Whoopi Goldberg announced that they were going to commercial.
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White House Pers Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will give comments at the press conference on 24 January. (Andrew Thomas/Nurphoto via Getty images)
Jean-Pierre made her first comments about her former boss since she left the office during the Harvard event and complained that the Democratic party was effectively driven out.
“I think what was the hardest thing to see in the three weeks was that there was a decoupling for me what happened to leadership in the Democratic party and how it really was, as my former colleague, communication director Ben Labolt said, it was a shooting team,” said Jean-Pierre.
“I had never seen anything like that. I had never seen a party in the way they did, and it was hurtful and sad to see that happen,” Jean-Pierre added. “A shooting team around a person I believe was a real patriot, a person who I think did everything he could do for this country. A person I believe, as I said before, did more in one period than most presidents in two terms, historical things, and I was shocked by what I saw.”
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The former press secretary of the White House revealed that at the same event She didn’t watch the news Since the inauguration of Trump. Jean-Pierre also said she had not missed the job, even though she was honored that they served in the Biden administration.
