Hillary Clinton calls Biden’s 2024 re-election bid a ‘fatal mistake’

Former Secretary of State and 2016 presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, on Monday night slammed former president Joe Biden for his decision to run for re-election in 2024.

“He made a terrible mistake,” Clinton said in an interview with 92NY’s David Remnick. “He made a terrible mistake for himself, his legacy and the country.”

It furthers Democrats’ narrative about Biden’s health and his decision to seek a second term after former first lady Jill Biden last month expressed concern that her husband was having a stroke on stage during his June 2024 debate with President Donald Trump.

Now Clinton is insulting her former friend by saying she went back on her word and insisting that former Vice President Kamala Harris would have had a chance to win if she had been the candidate from the beginning.

“He had said he wasn’t going to run again, and you know, false narratives are always tricky, but I believe if he had kept that plan and said, in the late summer of ’23, he wasn’t going to run, that he was going to pass the torch to the next generation, we would have had a real race,” Clinton said while sitting in Manhattan this week.

Biden dropped out of the presidential race in late July 2024, just weeks after a disastrous debate that led left-leaning commentators to call for him to step down. The Democratic Party then installed former VP Harris as the presidential nominee without a primary vote.

“The saddest thing is, I believe that whoever came out of the race, be it vice president or governor or senator or anyone else, would have defeated Donald Trump,” Clinton once again speculated.

“So I think it was a poor performance by President Biden, but when he didn’t budge and he didn’t admit that he said he was going to step aside and he decided not to, and he held on as long as he did, we were in a very bad situation.”

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Former Vice President Kamala Harris admitted in an excerpt from her new book that it was “reckless” to allow President Joe Biden to run for re-election in 2024. President Biden and Vice President Harris are seen walking and chatting in the Colonnade of the White House in Washington, DC. (Ting Shen/Bloomberg)

Clinton never expressed concern about Biden’s bid for reelection while it was still underway.

In fact, on June 28, 2024, the day after Biden’s debate, he maintained his support for him in a post on X.

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“The election in this election is always easy,” he said at the time. “It’s a choice between someone who cares about you—your rights, your hopes, your future—versus someone who’s only out for himself. I’m going to vote for Biden.”

He spent all of 2024 promoting Biden before his snap decision to hand the reins to Harris.

“We don’t have to wonder what this year’s presidential candidates will do in office,” he said in a post on June 19, 2024. “When it comes to immigration, President Biden is keeping families together while strengthening our economy. Donald Trump tore families apart. Vote accordingly.”

Former President Bill Clinton, former Vice President Kamala Harris, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attend the inauguration of President Donald Trump as the 47th president at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, in January 2025. (SHAWN THEW/Pool via REUTERS)

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In January of that year, he was urging people to support Biden in the name of democracy.

“After Iowa, we are close to knowing who the Republicans will nominate for president. But no matter who they choose, we are fighting for reproductive freedom and democracy that we cannot afford to lose. Join Team Biden-Harris today,” he said.

Fox News Digital did not receive a response from a Biden spokesperson when reached for comment on Clinton’s latest comments.