Former President Bill Clinton said Wednesday that President-elect Donald Trump won the 2024 race “fair and square,” unlike what he still believes was an illegitimate result in 2016.

“This time Donald Trump won the race, fair and square,” Clinton told “The View,” adding, “I think.”

During an appearance on the ABC talk show, the ex-president was reminded by co-host Joy Behar that he wrote in his memoir that he was so outraged by the loss of his wife Hillary Clinton in 2016 that he couldn’t sleep.

“How do you sleep now?” Behar asked, referring to Trump’s loss to Vice President Kamala Harris. “What’s going to happen now?”

Bill Clinton appears on “The View” on December 11, 2024.

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“I sleep better now because I did everything I could for the alternative,” he said. “But I also think it’s important for everyone to just take a deep breath and say that unlike 2016, there was no outside influence like the FBI director who intervened at the last moment and against the 70-year-old policy violated, and it changed 5% (in polls) overnight.”

The Clintons have repeatedly blamed then-FBI Director James Comey’s letter in late October 2016 reopening the investigation into their use of a private email server as a key factor in their narrow defeat to Trump.

President Clinton said Wednesday that he had never seen such a rapid change in the polls in his life. Still, Hillary Clinton was widely favored by pundits as she entered the election this year to defeat Trump, despite Comey’s letter to Congress about the investigation.

“Anyone who says they didn’t give Trump the election needs to be —” he said Monday, trailing off.

An opposite of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. (AP images)

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However, in this year’s election, Clinton said Trump won fairly, or so he thought.

“I’m not like (Trump). I need evidence to press charges. As far as I know he won and there are many reasons why,” he said.

The former president urged the party to observe a peaceful transfer of power and work with Trump and Republicans if possible.

“I don’t think we should just obstruct them, even though they often do that to us,” he said. “I think it’s a mistake.”

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Clinton served as governor of Arkansas before successfully running for president in 1992, building a coalition of rural and urban voters. A generation later, rural working-class voters have fled the Democratic Party in droves.

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton speaks during a “Get-Out-The-Vote” rally for Vice President Kamala Harris on the first day of early voting in North Carolina in Durham, North Carolina, October 17, 2024. Harris lost the election . (Photo by Logan Cyrus / AFP) (Photo by LOGAN CYRUS/AFP via Getty Images)

Asked about winning back that part of the electorate on the show, Clinton said Democrats tend to write off certain groups based on their demographics and likelihood of support.

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“We need to stop yelling at each other and listen to each other,” he said.