Jill Biden No Longer Sees a Woman Being President in Her Lifetime After Being Left 'Shocked' by Kamala Harris' 2024 Election Loss

Former First Lady Dr. Jill Biden admitted that she no longer expects to see a woman elected as president of the United States within her lifetime.

She shared these reflections during an interview with host Kelly Ripa on the SiriusXM podcast "Let’s Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa."

When Ripa asked the former first lady if she believed the United States would ever see a female president in her lifetime, Biden responded, “In my lifetime. I'm 75. I feel like probably not in my lifetime, Kelly, but maybe in yours.”

Biden explained that her outlook changed after Vice President Kamala Harris lost the 2024 presidential election to President Donald Trump. She noted that she was heavily active on the campaign trail and expected Harris to win.

Describing the energy at the Democratic National Convention and the size of the crowds, Biden said she truly believed the glass ceiling was about to be broken.

She recalled waking up at 5:00 AM the morning after Election Day to feed her cat, Willow, only to find out Harris had lost, leaving her completely "shocked.”

“I really did think last time that Kamala was gonna win. I was out on the campaign trail for her,” Biden continued. “I saw the excitement, I saw the crowds, I saw [it] at the convention. I saw all the energy, and I thought, ‘Finally, we’re going to have a woman president.’ And I must tell you, I was shocked... the morning after when I got up at 5:00 in the morning to feed Willow and get ready for the day, and I found out that she had lost. Shocked.”

The wide-ranging interview also touched upon other deeply personal topics for the Biden family, including her new memoir View from the East Wing, her son Hunter Biden's public addiction struggles and former President Joe Biden's ongoing treatments following an aggressive prostate cancer diagnosis.

Despite Jill's personal doubts regarding her own lifetime, several prominent women continue to lead political discussions as potential future contenders for the executive office, including Harris, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

While Harris has said she is thinking about a run, Ocasio-Cortez, 36, was vague.

“What’s funny about that is that they assume my ambition is positional; they assume my ambition is a title or a seat. And my ambition is way bigger than that,” she said. “My ambition is to change this country.”

“Presidents come and go. Senate, House seats, elected officials come and go, but single-payer healthcare is forever. A living wage is forever. Workers’ rights are forever. Women’s rights, all of that,” she said.

Former President Barack Obama disagreed with Jill, saying in June, "I'm confident that when we get a female president, which we will get sometime soon in my lifetime, I expect it won't be remarkable. And then they'll talk about a female president just like they talk about the black president. They'll be more interested in, like what's happening with the price of gas, and you know why haven't we fixed that and why haven't we done that and and that's good, that's a good thing, right, it becomes normalized, and that's I think what we want."