In a Monday appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” former President Bill Clinton said that despite President-elect Donald Trump’s general election victories in all seven battleground states, America remains “deeply” divided.

The 42nd President of the United States spoke with Joe Scarborough about his book Citizen: My Life after the White House, published in November, and his reactions to the November results.

“People are losing faith in institutions, and in many places they will reward the people who have destroyed their faith,” Clinton said. “I wouldn’t bet against America. So far, everyone who has bet against us has lost money. We just have to keep going.”

Mr. President Clinton on the polarized state of US politics: “People are losing faith in institutions and in many places they are rewarding the people who have destroyed their faith. I wouldn’t bet against America. So far everyone has bet against us and lost money.” bit.ly/49pAug5

– Morning Joe (@morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social) 2024-12-09T14:54:38.872Z

Clinton also joined Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign, 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 for primaries.”

Essentially, she is a “stranger” to the public, he said.

The 78-year-old had campaigned for Harris across the country and took the stage to support her at the Democratic National Convention in August.

Clinton’s analysis of the election continued as he said the Trump team tried to win economic victories that he said were a product of the Democratic administration before him.

“I think the facts are that he inherited the end of the Obama-era recovery,” he said of Trump winning credit for a strong economy early in his first term.

It’s been just over a month since Republicans won the White House and both chambers of Congress, and some Democratic officials are still trying to explain the loss of blue-collar, Latino and female voters.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, and a former presidential candidate blamed the defeat on Democrats’ failure to focus on working-class issues, and others are calling for new leadership.

“If I see a dumpster fire and we put it out and I want to work on how to prevent future dumpster fires, I’m not going to talk to the arsonists,” said 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 the 2024 election with MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough