Former President Joe Biden made an appearance on “The View” Thursday and fumbled a question about how long former Vice President Kamala Harris had to prepare for her presidential run against President Donald Trump.
According to Fox News, when asked by “View” co-host Sunny Hostin about how Biden feels about critics saying his exit from the presidential race and endorsement of Harris hindered her campaign, Biden appeared to have a fuzzy memory of the circumstances.
“Some have even argued that leaving the race and endorsing your vice president, Vice President Harris, over a hundred days before the election hampered her campaign. What do you say to those critics?” Hostin asked.
Biden seemed to miscalculate the months Harris had to campaign after he stepped down on July 21 until election day on November 5. Alternatively, he may have misunderstood the question, as he instead referenced the remaining months of his term, which concluded on January 20.
“I say, number one, that there were still six full months,” Biden said. “She was in every aspect, every decision I made. Every decision we made. And I don’t think, I hope I didn’t sound the wrong way. I don’t think anybody thought we’d be successful as we were. I don’t think anybody thought we’d pass the Recovery Act. I don’t think anyone thought we’d have – we’d deal with the [CHIPS and Science Act]. I don’t think anybody thinks we’d have all we got done in a close race, think about it.”
“We got more major legislation passed to fundamentally change the direction of the country than any president has in a long, long time,” Biden added.
“And so, we’re in a situation where we came into office, and we agreed on two things,” Biden said. “One, I was sick and tired of trickle-down economics. And my dad used to say, ‘Not a whole lot trickled down in his kitchen table,’ and so we built the economy from the middle out and the bottom up.”
Biden further took aim at Trump, saying that he has had the worst 100 days any president has ever had.
Biden highlighted own his efforts in the six months following his withdrawal from the race, expressing confidence in the work he had accomplished and remarking that he had done a “pretty good job.”
“The strongest economy in the world we left. That’s not hyperbole, that’s a fact,” Biden said. “We created more jobs in one term than any president has in American history. And so my point is that we had a very successful effort to change the direction of the country and we did, and she was every single part of that.”
