Former President Joe Biden revealed Thursday in his second TV interview after leaving the White House that he “wasn’t surprised” President Trump trounced Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.

“I wasn’t surprised, not because I didn’t think the vice president wasn’t the most qualified person to be president. She is,” Biden said during an, at times awkward and halting, appearance on ABC’s “The View.”

The ousted Democratic leader then asserted that had he not bowed out of the last presidential contest, he would have won — pointing to Trump getting “7 million fewer votes” nationwide than in their 2020 matchup.

“A lot of people didn’t show up,” Biden said of the 2024 election.

Jill Biden joined her husband, Joe Biden, as they visited “The View” on Thursday. The View/ABC

Asked by co-host Joy Behar why Trump remains “so fixated on you” and blames him for faults in the last administration, Biden replied: “I beat him.”

Trump flipped the so-called “blue wall” states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin as well as Arizona, Nevada and Georgia that he’d lost to Biden four years prior to win last November against Harris.

That delivered all seven key swing-state Electoral College votes to Trump. 

Harris also lost the popular vote, making Trump the first Republican presidential candidate to cross that threshold since President George W. Bush in 2004.

“View” co-host Sunny Hostin also pointed out that the vice president had said in an October interview on their show she wouldn’t have changed “a thing” about how Biden handled his term — despite the Democrat’s plummeting polling numbers.

“I did not advise her to say that,” said Biden. 

“I think she was talking about — she wouldn’t have changed the successes we had … as opposed to that we wouldn’t change anything at all.”

“She has to be her own person — and she was,” he offered, before adding: “We’d argue like hell by the way.”

Top aides on the Harris campaign conceded after the election that their internal polling numbers also never showed the VP ahead of Trump. 

After the election, the Democratic firm Blueprint found in a poll that the top three reasons Harris lost were rising inflation, the flow of illegal migrants across the border into the country and the vice president’s focus in her political career on “cultural issues like transgender issues rather than helping the middle class.”

Biden says he still talks to Harris regularly. Getty Images

Biden didn’t acknowledge any of the negative public polling when answering questions Thursday about his former running-mate, opting instead to claim the Trump campaign made “sexist” attacks on Harris.

“I wasn’t surprised because they went the route of a, the sexist route, whole route, this is a woman, she’s this, she’s that,” he also said.

“I’ve never seen quite, uh, as successful and consistent campaign undercutting the notion that a woman couldn’t lead the country — and a woman of mixed race,” he added.

“They played that … fairly well,” Biden trailed off, before joking that one of the hosts had begged him not to talk at length as he’s been prone to do.

Former President Biden accused the campaign of using Harris’ race and gender against her. The View/ABC

The 46th president also said that he was “very disappointed” by the Democrats’ staggering loss, claiming “liberal democracies all across America, all across the world lost last time.”

“I think we underestimate the phenomenal negative impact that COVID had and the pandemic had on people, on attitudes, on optimism, on a whole range of things,” he clarified.

The retired president also divulged that he “talks to” Harris “frequently” and had shared his “opinion” on an unidentified matter as recently as “yesterday.”

Asked directly whether rumors of Harris running for California governor were accurate, Biden said: “She’s got a difficult decision to make about what she’s going to do.”

“I hope she stays fully engaged. I think she’s first rate,” he added. “But we have a lot of really good candidates as well.”

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