‘I think she would be a good president’

Former first lady Jill Biden claimed in a new interview Sunday that she was “shocked” that then-Vice President Kamala Harris lost to Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, adding that she still believes the Californian “would be a good president.”

“I was certain she was going to win,” Jill told interviewer Rita Braver on CBS News “Sunday Morning” ahead of the Tuesday release of her memoir “View from the East Wing.”

“You were?” a surprised-sounding Braver asked.

“The excitement for her and the crowds and, I mean, how people rallied around her, and I truly felt that she was going to win,” Biden continued. “I was shocked she didn’t win, because I think she would be a good president.”

The former first lady added that “I went to bed” on Election Night and “I just, I couldn’t believe that she had lost.”

Harris, considered a top contender for the 2028 Democratic nomination, became the party’s first nominee in 20 years to lose the popular vote, while Trump received 326 Electoral College votes, the most by any GOP nominee since George H.W. Bush in 1988.