Former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre revealed in her new memoir that she never believed twice-failed Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris would win the 2024 election.
Jean-Pierre blames Harris’s doomed chances on what she described as America’s unwillingness to elect “a president who looked like me.”
In her book “Independent,” Jean-Pierre wrote that she woke up on Election Day morning to learn Harris had lost to President Donald Trump.
However, she said the former vice president’s crushing defeat didn’t surprise her.
“When I woke up, it was over. Harris had lost,” Jean-Pierre wrote.
“I received calls from friends who were distraught or numb with disbelief. But I wasn’t surprised by the outcome.
“The truth was, I never really believed Harris could win.
“I’d been in the body of a black woman all my life.
“I’d stood at the podium in the White House briefing room, traveled in my chocolate skin through rural towns, and all my experiences of blistering stares and racist assumptions left me unable to see this country electing a president who looked like me.”
Jean-Pierre Breaks from the Democratic Party
Jean-Pierre’s book also chronicles her departure from the Democratic Party, which she accused of betraying former President Joe Biden after pushing him aside during the 2024 campaign season.
She said her pessimism toward Harris’s chances stemmed from her own experience facing “misogyny, sexism and double standards” while serving in the Biden White House.
“Harris and so many others had fought and hoped so hard,” she wrote.
“I wanted to believe. I wanted to believe.
“But in the end, I was proven right.
“The United States just wasn’t there yet.
“Once again, and this time not because of an electoral artifact embedded in the Constitution, we had elected Trump.”
Blames Democrats for Harris’s Loss
Throughout the memoir, Jean-Pierre lashes out at Democratic Party leaders, accusing them of mismanaging Harris’s campaign and undermining both Biden and Harris in the process.
“It was deeply disturbing that after shoving Biden aside in a disgraceful display, the party’s elders couldn’t summon enough know-how to help an intelligent, accomplished attorney like Harris defeat an ignorant former reality TV star,” Jean-Pierre wrote.
“The party had to redefine its mission, and figure out a way to move forward without publicly tearing apart our standard bearers or leaving their successors dangling in the wind.”
Biden Echoed the Racism and Sexism Narrative
Jean-Pierre’s comments echo remarks made earlier this year by former President Joe Biden, who also attributed Harris’s defeat to sexism and racism.
“I wasn’t surprised, not because I didn’t think the vice president was the most qualified person to be president. She is,” Biden said on The View.
“She’s qualified to be president of the United States of America.
“I was surprised, I was 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, it really, 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.”
Harris’s Own Book Paints a Different Picture
Jean-Pierre wrote that Harris should have been allowed to seek the nomination “without a cage fight with governors and congresspeople jostling to jump the front of the line.”
“Bypassing Harris would have also been disrespectful to black women overall, the ride-or-die foot soldiers of the Democratic Party who’d long done the work but too often got bypassed or overlooked once the campaigns that needed their votes and labor were in the rearview mirror,” she added.
Harris, for her part, has repeatedly defended her 2024 campaign in her own memoir and during her recent book tour, insisting that President Trump’s re-election victory was “the closest” of the century and did not amount to a mandate.
Jean-Pierre’s book, meanwhile, marks a striking public break from the Democratic establishment and offers a rare inside view of the turmoil that engulfed the party in the aftermath of Trump’s decisive 2024 victory.
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