Jill Biden: Former president, Harris ‘still friends’

Former first lady Jill Biden said Wednesday that her husband and former Vice President Kamala Harris remain “friends,” nearly a year-and-a-half after they left office.

While promoting her new book at the Sixth & I synagogue in Washington, D.C., she said Harris recently called former President Biden.

“They’re still friends. … They talk, she calls him, or he calls her,” Jill Biden told journalist Paola Ramos. 

“You have to understand Joe as a man,” the former first lady added. “I mean, he doesn’t… hold grudges.”

In her own book about the 2024 presidential campaign, Harris panned the former president’s decision to run for reelection. Biden, despite polling showing that voters wanted the aging politician to step aside, opted to campaign again.

Had he won, Biden would have been 86 years old at the end of his presidency.

The then-incumbent’s dismal debate performance against President Trump in June 2024 sparked calls from Democratic lawmakers for him to drop out. At the time, Harris publicly backed her boss. 

But in her book, titled........

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