Former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre revealed how upset she was when then-President Joe Biden announced he was abandoning his re-election race.
In an excerpt from her new memoir, the former Biden spokesperson recounted how “stunned” she was by his decision to drop out of the race and how she realized she could no longer “stomach” being part of the Democratic Party that left her feeling betrayed.
A former MSNBC political analyst who also worked on multiple Democratic presidential campaigns, Jean-Pierre revealed she was registering as an Independent earlier this year when she announced her forthcoming book, “Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines.”
“You know what? I’m going to become an independent. I don’t think I can stomach being in the Democratic Party anymore.”
– Excerpt from Karine Jean-Pierre’s upcoming book, Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines. pic.twitter.com/Zxhh43q9w8— lou (@littlelou050) October 17, 2025
“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,” Jean-Pierre wrote, describing the moment Biden told the team of his determination not to continue his re-election campaign.
“The Democratic Party had defined my life, my career,” she added. “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.”
At an event at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University earlier this year, Jean-Pierre slammed Democrats, whom she accused of acting like a “firing squad around a person who I believe was a true patriot, a person who I believe did everything that he can for this country.”
Former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announces she is no longer a Democrat, now identifies as an Independent, and has written a tell-all book about her time in the White House.
Unbelievable. pic.twitter.com/zd1FkP8YxL
— DeVory Darkins (@devorydarkins) June 4, 2025
In the book, she wrote about how she made the decision to leave the party behind.
“Now the cloud of unease hovering over me solidified into an idea about how I could possibly do something different. How I could channel my disappointment into some kind of concrete action that would allow me to fight for what I believed in without giving blind loyalty to a party I felt no longer deserved it,” she wrote.
“‘You know what? I’m going to become an Independent. I don’t think I can stomach being in the Democratic Party anymore,” she concluded.
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.
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