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Former Secretary of State and failed 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Monday night trashed former president Joe Biden for his decision to run for reelection in 2024.
“He made a terrible mistake,” Clinton said in an interview with David Remnick of 92NY. “He made a terrible mistake for himself, his legacy and for the country.”
It furthers the Democrats’ narrative shift over Biden’s health and his decision to seek a second term after former First Lady Jill Biden last month revealed she worried her husband was having a stroke on stage during his June 2024 debate with President Donald Trump.
Clinton is now bashing her one-time ally by claiming he went back on his word and insisting that former Vice President Kamala Harris would have had a chance to win if she was the candidate from the get-go.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks on the first day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago on Aug. 19, 2024. (Mandel Ngan/Getty Images)
“He had said that he would not run again, and you know, counterfactual narratives are always a bit tricky, but I believe that if he had kept to that plan and said in say, the late summer of ’23, that he wasn’t going to run, that he was going to pass the torch to the next generation we would’ve had a real contest,” Clinton said in her sit-down in Manhattan this week.
Biden exited the presidential race in late July 2024, a few weeks after a disastrous debate display led to left-wing commentators calling for him to step down. The Democratic Party then installed then-VP Harris as its presidential nominee without a primary vote.
“Very sadly, I believe that whoever emerged from the contest, whether it was the vice president or a governor or a senator or anybody else, would have beaten Donald Trump,” Clinton retroactively speculated.
“So I think it was a terrible miscalculation on the part of President Biden, but once he didn’t move and did not admit that he had said he was going to step aside and decided not to, and held on for as long as he did, we were in a terrible dilemma.”
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Former Vice President Kamala Harris admitted in an excerpt from her new book that it was “recklessness” to allow President Joe Biden to run for reelection in 2024. President Biden and Vice President Harris are seen walking and chatting through the Colonnade of the White House in Washington, D.C. (Ting Shen/Bloomberg)
Clinton never voiced any concerns about Biden’s reelection bid while it was ongoing.
In fact, on June 28, 2024, the day after Biden’s comatose debate performance, she maintained her support for him in a post on X.
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“The choice in this election remains very simple,” she said at the time. “It’s a choice between someone who cares about you—your rights, your prospects, your future—versus someone who’s only in it for himself. I’ll be voting Biden.”
She spent all of 2024 propping Biden up before his abrupt decision to hand the reins over to Harris.
“We don’t have to wonder what this year’s presidential contenders would do in office,” she said in a post on June 19, 2024. “When it comes to immigration, President Biden keeps families together while strengthening our economy. Donald Trump ripped families apart. Vote accordingly.”
Former President Bill Clinton, former Vice President Kamala Harris, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attend President Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 47th president in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., in January 2025. (SHAWN THEW/Pool via REUTERS)
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In January of that year, she was actively encouraging people to support Biden in the name of democracy.
“After Iowa, we’re one step closer to knowing who the Republicans will nominate for president. But no matter who they choose, we’re in a fight for reproductive freedom and democracy that we can’t afford to lose. Join Team Biden-Harris today,” she said.
Fox News Digital did not hear back from a Biden spokesperson when reached for comment on Clinton’s recent remarks.