Joe Biden Breaks Silence with Candid Remarks on Kamala Harris and 2024 Exit

In his first sit-down interview since departing the White House in January, former President Joe Biden opened up about his late-stage decision to end his re-election campaign — and made some revealing comments about Vice President Kamala Harris.

During a wide-ranging interview with the BBC’s Nick Robinson, Biden addressed the timing of his exit from the race and whether he had any second thoughts about it. While much of the conversation revolved around foreign policy and global trade, the segment concluded with a direct question about Biden’s last-minute campaign withdrawal.

Robinson asked whether Biden regretted not stepping aside sooner to give someone else — namely Harris — a better shot at defeating President Donald Trump.

Biden gave a firm “no” to both the regret and the notion that it would have changed the outcome.

Full exchange below:

ROBINSON: I can hear your passion. I can hear your anxiety that the world is changing the way it has. And for a long time you believed—You said, “I’m the man who can stop Donald Trump.” And you did once. And in the end you withdrew from that election campaign at the last minute. It’s a question you know lots of people ask you, Mr. President. Did you leave it too late? Should you have withdrawn earlier, given someone else a bigger chance?

BIDEN: I don’t think it would have mattered. We left at a time when we had a good candidate, she was fully funded, and what happened was I had become—What we had set out to do, no one thought we could do. And I’d become so successful on our agenda, it was hard to say, “Now I’m gonna stop now.” I meant what I said when I started, that I think I’m prepared to hand this to the next generation, the transition government. But things move so quickly that it made it difficult to walk away— to get—. And it was a hard decision. But—

ROBINSON: Regrets, though?

BIDEN: No, I think it was the right decision. I think that the— well, it was just a difficult decision.

While Biden tried to put a confident spin on his exit, critics across the political spectrum are taking a deeper look at what they see as a chaotic end to his presidency — and the mounting problems that plagued his final year in office.

In a strongly worded editorial, The New York Post called out legacy outlets like The New York Times for only recently acknowledging long-reported stories involving the Biden family.

“A full 4½ years after The Post’s bombshell series on Hunter Biden’s influence-peddling schemes, The New York Times has deigned to take an interest in the former First Son’s corruption,” the editorial board wrote.

“We’d say the Times’ willingness to at long last cover this comes better late than never, but it only published the story now that it doesn’t remotely matter anymore.”

Meanwhile, Michael LaRosa, a former press secretary to Jill Biden, confirmed that officials within the White House went out of their way to deflect concerns about Biden’s age and mental clarity.

Speaking to journalist Tara Palmeri, LaRosa said Biden’s team engaged in deliberate “gaslighting” to minimize growing doubts from both the media and the public.

“There are some things that are true. I mean, like the gaslighting, there was a lot of denial of the polling. And I will use the term gaslight because that’s what they were doing — the campaign, former colleagues,” LaRosa admitted.

Major publications like The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times have since reported that concerns about Biden’s mental and physical condition were shared quietly among his inner circle for years — even as the administration publicly denied them.

LaRosa also revealed that the team was “scared to death” of letting Biden hold spontaneous press events, fearing unscripted moments could do damage.

“He couldn’t compete for the attention economy,” LaRosa said bluntly.

Biden’s infamous debate performance in June was seen by many as the breaking point, triggering calls for him to step aside. And while Biden insists he left the race at the right moment, critics argue it came too late — and may have cost his party dearly.