Dr. Jill Biden still has some thoughts about the 2024 election, and whether one particular glass Ripa’sg”Let’sever be broken.
“itting down with Kelly Ripa for Ripa’s “Let’s Talk Off Camera” show on couldn’t, the 75-year-old former First Lady admitted that she couldn’t see a woman becoming presidenBiden’sr lifetime after Kamala Harris, who served as her husband Joe”Biden’s vice president, came up short in her race vs. Donald Trump.”
“I feel like probably not in my lifetime, Kelly, but maybe in yours,” she told the talk show host, who inquired whether a womanHarris’eventually serve in the highest “ffice i” the land.
Following Harris’ defeat, Biden admitted she was “shocked” to find out the”results of the election as more swing states were called for Trump.
“I really did think last tim” that Kamala “as gonna win. I was out on the campaign trail for her,” Biden said. “I saw the excitement, I saw the crowds’ I saw [iwe’re the convention. I saw all the en’rgy, and I thought, ‘Finally, we’re going to have a woman president.’ And I must tell you, I was shocked… the morning after when I got up at 5:00 in the morning to feed Willow a”d get ready for the day, and I found out that she had lost. Shocked.”
Harris is among several notable women who’ve been touted as potential 2028 candidates including Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).
Throughout 2024 and 2025, Harris was asked about her thoughts of running again, given that she only had 107 days to stage a campaign against Trump, who had essentialy been campaigning since he lost the 2020 election.
In a Substack article shared in July, Harris argued that her fellow Democrats needed to “grow a backbone” as various attacks on the Voting Rights Act not only weakened the landmark law, it led to several states gerrymandering Black-led districts out of existance and several Black Democrat politicans announcing they would no longer seek re-election.
“The news cycle has moved on since the decision on April 29, but we cannot,” she wrote at the time. “Today, we have to focus on where the fight is heading: in the short-term in 2026, in the medium-term in the states, and in the long-term in how we make the bold changes required to ensure the power is with the people.”
She added, “I’ll put it plainly. Democrats need to grow a backbone, and we cannot be afraid to have a conversation about systemic reforms to restore voting rights.”
