Bill Clinton tells MSNBC's Joe Scarborough that 'People are losing faith in institutions'
In a Monday appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," former President Bill Clinton said, despite President-elect Donald Trump sweeping all seven battleground states in the general election, America is still "deeply" divided.
The 42nd president of the United States spoke with Joe Scarborough about his November-published book, "Citizen: My Life after the White House," and his reactions to the November results.
"People are losing faith in the institutions, and in many, many places, they're going to reward the people that destroyed their faith," Clinton said. "I wouldn't bet against America. So far everybody that's bet against us has lost money. We just gotta stay after it."
Fmr. President Clinton on the polarized state of U.S. politics:"People are losing faith in institutions, and in many places, they're going to reward the people that destroyed their faith. I wouldn't bet against America. So far, everybody that's bet against us has lost money." bit.ly/49pAug5
— Morning Joe (@morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social) 2024-12-09T14:54:38.872Z
Clinton also chimed in on Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign run saying, "She became a candidate at a time when no one else could legally access the money that had already been given to Joe Biden, and there was no time to have primaries."
Essentially, she was a "stranger" to the public, he said.
The 78-year-old had been stumping for Harris across the country and took the stage in support of her at the Democratic National Convention in August.
Clinton's analysis of the election continued when he said the Trump team tried to claim economic wins he felt were a product of the Democratic administration before him.
"I think the facts are that he inherited the end of the Obama-era's recovery," he said about Trump getting credit for a strong economy at the beginning of his first term.
It's been just over a month since the Republicans won the White House and both houses of Congress, and some Democratic officials are still trying to explain the loss of blue-collar, Latino, and women voters.
Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, and a former presidential candidate blamed the loss on Democrats' failure to focus on working-class issues, and others are clamoring for new leadership.
"If I see a dumpster fire and we've put it out and I want to work on how to prevent future dumpster fires, I'm not going to go talk to the arsonists," Aidan Kohn-Murphy, the founder of Gen Z for Change, a political activism group, said on TikTok.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Bill Clinton talks with MSNBC's Joe Scarborough about 2024 election
