Former White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre dodged when requested by “The View” if former President Biden would have crushed President Donald Trump had he stayed within the 2024 race.
Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin referenced how Jean-Pierre described the sudden Democratic opposition to Biden after his tough June debate efficiency as a “firing squad” at an occasion for the Institute of Politics at Harvard College on Wednesday.
Griffin then posed the query, “Do you consider that Joe Biden would have gained if he had stayed in, and a follow-up to that, do you suppose Kamala Harris would have had a greater shot had she had extra time?”
“I used to be requested a query, I answered it truthfully and the way I felt in the intervening time, I used to be the one going to the rostrum virtually day-after-day after that occurred, and it was stunning what I noticed. However I additionally, I can’t speculate, proper? I don’t know what would have occurred. I actually – and anyone that claims they do, they don’t actually know, and so I don’t need to go to rehash the previous,” Jean-Pierre responded.
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Former White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre joined the co-hosts of “The View” on Tuesday for her first post-WH interview. (Screenshot/ABC/TheView)
Jean-Pierre pivoted to Trump, emphasizing that she did not need to look backwards, and stated the nation was in a “five-alarm fireplace” beneath his presidency.
Griffin additionally tried to ask Jean-Pierre about whether or not she had entry to polling displaying that Biden “would have misplaced each swing state.”
“That ship has sailed,” liberal co-host Pleasure Behar chimed in.
Jean-Pierre denied she had any actual contact with the Biden marketing campaign as press secretary. She additionally didn’t reply Griffin’s query about whether or not Harris would have carried out higher had she had extra time.
“It does matter although, we will not simply flail our arms about Trump when it issues,” Griffin added, as Whoopi Goldberg introduced they had been going to business.
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White Home Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre offers remarks on the press briefing on January 24. (Andrew Thomas/NurPhoto through Getty Photographs)
Jean-Pierre made her first remarks on her former boss since leaving workplace throughout the occasion at Harvard, lamenting that the Democratic Occasion successfully ousted Biden.
“I feel what was the hardest factor to see within the three weeks was there was a disconnect for me [in] what was occurring with management within the Democratic Occasion and the way it was really, as my former colleague, communications director Ben Labolt stated, it was a firing squad,” Jean-Pierre stated.
“I had by no means seen something prefer it earlier than. I had by no means seen a celebration try this in the way in which that they did, and it was hurtful and unhappy to see that taking place,” Jean-Pierre added. “A firing squad round an individual who I consider was a real patriot, an individual who I consider did every little thing that he can for this nation. An individual who I consider, as I discussed earlier than, has executed extra in a single time period than most presidents had executed in two phrases, historic issues, and I used to be shocked by what I used to be seeing.”
The previous White Home press secretary revealed on the similar occasion that she hasn’t watched the information since Trump’s inauguration. Jean-Pierre additionally stated she did not miss the job, regardless of being honored to have served in Biden’s administration.
