Biden Denies Telling Harris There Could Be 'no Daylight' Between Them, Addresses Former Vp's 'view' Moment

Former President Joe Biden denied telling erstwhile Vice President Kamala Harris that location could beryllium nary "daylight" betwixt them while she was connected nan run trail, and defended what was wide seen arsenic a flubbed opportunity for nan vice president to differentiate herself from Biden during her October 2024 question and reply connected nan ABC show. 

Co-host Sunny Hostin brought up her question posed to Harris up of nan election. Hostin asked astatine nan clip if location was thing nan then-vice president would person done otherwise from Biden and Harris said "not a point comes to mind." 

Hostin said nan vice president's reply was "weaponized against her," and asked Biden astir nan reporting that he had told Harris "there could beryllium nary daylight" betwixt nan brace while she was campaigning.

"Well, look, first of all, I did not counsel her to opportunity that, number one. Like I said, I was vice president. I understand nan role, number one. Number two, I deliberation it was, I deliberation she was talking about, she wouldn’t person changed nan successes we had, not opposed to, we wouldn’t alteration thing astatine all. She has to beryllium her ain person, and she was. She was. And truthful I deliberation that was utilized successful a measurement that is contrary to what she meant by it, erstwhile she said that and I deliberation that, you know, she was portion of each occurrence we had," nan erstwhile president said. 

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Former President Biden denied telling Kamala Harris location could beryllium "no daylight" betwixt them connected nan run way during an question and reply connected "The View." (Screenshot/ABC)

A book, written by reporters Amie Parnes and Jonathan Allen, alleged Biden "would opportunity publically that Harris should do what she must to win. But privately, including successful conversations pinch her, he repeated an admonition: fto location be nary daylight betwixt us."

"But nan time of nan statement Biden called to springiness Harris an different benignant of pep talk — and different reminder astir nan loyalty he demanded. No longer capable to take sides his ain record, he expected Harris to protect his legacy," they wrote. "Whether she won aliases mislaid nan election, he thought, she would only harm him by publically distancing herself from him — particularly during a statement that would beryllium watched by millions of Americans. To nan grade that she wanted to forge her ain path, Biden had nary liking successful giving her room to do so."

Hostin asked nan erstwhile president during nan question and reply connected Thursday to respond to critics who based on that he should person dropped retired of nan title sooner to springiness Harris much time, noting that Harris' run was astir 90 days. 

"I say, number one, that location were still six afloat months, she was successful each aspect, each determination I made, each determination we made, and I don’t think, I dream I don’t sound nan incorrect way. I don’t deliberation anybody thought we’d beryllium successful arsenic we were," Biden responded.

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Biden dropped retired of nan title connected July 21, 2024. That near Harris pinch nan afloat period of August, September and October to tally her campaign, successful summation to a fewer other weeks. 

The erstwhile president blamed sexism and racism for Harris' nonaccomplishment and revealed he wasn't amazed by Trump's win.

Hostin has besides blamed Harris' nonaccomplishment connected racism and misogyny aft nan election.

Whoopi Goldberg introduced Kamala Harris arsenic nan "next president of nan United States" erstwhile she visited nan group connected October 8, 2024. (ABC/The View)

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"As a country, it’s very difficult for group to judge that racism and misogyny, they’re conscionable live and well. I deliberation that we don’t want to deliberation that astir ourselves, our neighbors, our friends, but it’s – my lived acquisition tells maine that it does still exist, moreover if your lived acquisition doesn’t show that it exists and, you know, nan facts support that," Hostin said, pointing to a chart that showed "a clear group divide" successful who voted for Trump arsenic opposed to who voted for Harris.