On Thursday, former President Joe Biden told the ladies of ‘The View’ that he “wasn’t surprised” by President Donald Trump’s victory over former Vice President Kamala Harris.

SARA HAINES, CO-HOST: But, Mr. President, last time you were here was a little over a month before the election, and you had made the selfless and very difficult decision, I’m sure, to step aside. And Democrats were feeling optimistic about the vice president’s chances of winning the presidency, but then election night came, and it was like 2016 all over again. So why do you think the vice president lost, and were you surprised? FORMER PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: I wasn’t surprised, not because I didn’t think the vice president was the most qualified person to be president. She is. She’s qualified to be president of the United States of America. But I was surprised, I wasn’t surprised because they went the route of, the sexist route, the whole route. I mean, this is a woman, she’s this, she’s that, I mean, I’ve never seen quite as successful and a consistent campaign undercutting the notion that a woman couldn’t lead the country and a woman of mixed race. And they played that to a fair, well, in addition to that, one of the things happened, if you notice, and I’m going to be shorter, okay, I promise. She said, don’t be Joe Biden.

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