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Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) on Sunday seemed to distance herself from former President Joe Biden’s assessment that the timing of his withdrawal from the 2024 election wouldn’t have made a difference, while urging Democrats to not give up on the idea of having a woman lead the party’s 2028 presidential ticket.
In an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Klobuchar said that while Biden should feel free to share his views, there’s no use in looking backwards.
“Yes, we would have been served better by a primary,” she said. “But we are where we are. We’re not on the History Channel right now.”
Biden dropped out of the race during the summer following a poor debate performance which fueled questions about his health and mental acuity. Shortly after, Biden endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to take his place on the top of the ticket, effectively ruling out a primary, even though some prominent Democrats, including Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), favored a competitive selection process.
In a recent interview with the BBC, Biden dismissed the suggestion that he should have pulled out of the 2024 race sooner to potentially allow former Vice President Kamala Harris more time to build out her campaign.
“I don’t think it would’ve mattered,” Biden told the British network. “We left at a time when we had a good candidate. She was fully funded.”
In a separate interview on ABC’s “The View” alongside former first lady Jill Biden, the former president said he expected Harris to lose.
“I wasn’t surprised because they went the sexist route, the whole route. ‘This is a woman,’ she’s this, she’s that, really, I’ve never seen quite as successful and consistent [of a] campaign undercutting the notion that a woman couldn’t lead the country — and a woman of mixed race,” Biden said.
Klobuchar told NBC’s Kristen Welker that she hoped Democrats wouldn’t draw the lesson that they shouldn’t pick a woman to lead their 2028 presidential ticket, stressing that female politicians have shown their strength both at home and abroad.
“You have seen women run other countries quite well,” she said. “Angela Merkel comes to mind in Germany. And you’ve also seen women in the U.S., incredible mayors, incredible governors. I look in the Senate for Democrats in the last election. Three of the four races where we beat the presidential ticket were women running.”
Klobuchar, who ran for the White House in 2020, also did not rule out another presidential run for herself.
