*Karine Jean-Pierre, former White House press secretary under President Joe Biden, has detailed her decision to leave the Democratic Party in her new memoir, “Independent.”
After years of working as a party loyalist, Jean-Pierre revealed that her disillusionment began with a phone call from Biden announcing his withdrawal from the race, Fox News reports.
“Biden seemed to be totally at peace with his decision, but I was stunned, my feelings a blur. I was angry and sad. I was enraged and heartbroken that this man had given more than 50 years of his life to serving the American people, and in the end he’d been treated poorly by members of his own party. It was horrible,” she wrote, reflecting on the emotional turmoil that followed the announcement.
Jean-Pierre admitted she never anticipated Biden would drop out, having long defended his capabilities. She described how the president’s cognitive decline had ultimately cost the party dearly, despite her repeated public assurances of his fitness for office. She also conveyed a sense of betrayal by the Democratic Party itself. “The Democratic Party had defined my life, my career,” Jean-Pierre wrote.
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“Everything I’d done to make people’s lives better had been connected to it. The party was the vehicle that allowed me not just to have a front seat to history, working first on [Barack] Obama’s presidential campaign then in his administration, but also to make some history of my own as the first Black woman and openly queer person to ever be a White House press secretary. Never had I considered leaving the party until now,” she added.
Jean-Pierre ultimately made the decision clear: “‘You know what? I’m going to become an independent. I don’t think I can stomach being in the Democratic Party anymore.'”
She accused Democrats of putting Biden under a “firing squad” after his poor debate performance against Donald Trump.
Jean-Pierre announced her departure from the party in June. Before her White House role, she had a long career supporting Democratic presidential campaigns.
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