Former press secretary of the White House, Karine Jean-Pierre, revealed what it was like during her last year, while in his last weeks of his re-election campaign she clambed for former President Joe Biden.
Jean-Pierre participated in an event at the Institute of Politics Harvard Kennedy School to talk about the Historic 2024 campaign, where her boss former President Joe Biden was forced from the race after his disastrous debate performance in June 2024.
“Personally what I think was the hardest in the three weeks, there was a divorce for me what happened in the leadership of the Democratic Party,” said Jean-Pierre.
After his disastrous first debate performance against former President Donald Trump, the donors and leaders of the Democratic Party worked behind the scenes to force Biden out of the race because they were terrified by the idea of ​​losing.
Jean-Pierre expressed her disappointment in the Democratic Party and wondered how quickly they moved within three weeks to force Biden.
“It was a shooting team and I had never seen anything like that,” she said. “I had never seen that doing a party in the way they did that and it was hurtful and sad to see that happening, a shooting team around a person I believe was a real patriot.”
Former house speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer repeatedly spoke with the media and their members, who expressed concern to the president and his advisers and demanded that he left the race.
Jean-Pierre defended Biden's performance in function and added that she was surprised how quickly the party turned against him.
“That was shocking, shocking!” she said. “Instead of getting together to be really united and try to find out how we save our democracy, how we fight back, that was what I saw.”
White House Pers Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre arrives to speak during the Daily Press Briefing
White House Pers Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre responds at the end of her last press briefing
The internal abnormal opinion behind Biden, she suggested, cost Democrats the elections.
“Really a pity, and I think it hurts us more than I think people realized,” she said.
Jean-Pierre thought that her job as a press secretary was the 'most difficult job in the White House'.
She said she was certainly struggling in the work, wondering how she would get through the day, but continued in the work.
“I am a human at the end of the day,” she admitted.
Jean-Pierre said she usually spent four hours preparing for the briefing and often relied on former senior adviser Mike Donilon to guide her about messages.
“Almost every word, everything I say has been approved,” she said.
US President Joe Biden, with press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre of the White House
President Joe Biden (with press secretary of the White House Karine Jean-Pierre on the far right) waves to the press
Jean-Pierre said she was an 'honor and a privilege' to serve as a press secretary of the White House, but admitted: “I didn't miss it at all.”
She pointed out that she was the 'longest serving female press secretary' in history that she was proud of.
Jean-Pierre said she enjoyed the change in pace and that she learned to be an ordinary citizen again.
“The last time I looked at the news was January 20,” she said. “I really have tired to concentrate on self -care.”
When asked what she was planning to do in her future, she smiled and said, “That's a good question, I would like to know myself.”
