Democrats were secretly planning for former President Joe Biden to stop from the presidential race or even 'dying' in function 'as early as 2023, claims a damn new book.
Top party officials, led by former vice -president Kamala Harris' communication director Jamal Simmons, attracted the emergency plans for a whole series of possibilities in the run -up to the 2024 elections.
One scenario included that 'Biden could die in function', according to Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes' coming book fight: Inside the Wastest Battle for the White House.
'They wanted to ensure that the party was ready for every possible circumstance when Biden launched his campaign and then stepped aside for the primaries; If he had won a number of primaries and could not continue, “the book is, according to The Guardian.
“If he insured enough representatives for winning the nomination, but stopped at the convention before he won a floor voice and if he left a vacancy at the top of the ticket after taking the nomination.”
The 'Hush-Hush' meetings were aimed at what the party rules would say in one of these circumstances' and how [those rules] Perhaps it should have to be changed, if the president no longer had the wish, or the ability to run. '
One of the plans they drawn up was a 'Death-Pool selection' of judges who could swear Harris in office if the then 81-year-old president died, the book claims, stating two non-disposed sources.
Simmons' never told the vice-president about the death schedule before she left her camp in January 2023, but he advised colleagues that he should be informed immediately if something would happen to Biden because he had worked out a whole communication strategy, “the book says.
He then left the spreadsheet with another Harris assistant.
“A civil servant who was involved in secret conversations gave a good point on the fear that Biden would not get the election day as a nominee of the party:” It shows what we had to do to prepare for the unique circumstances we had, an 80-plus-year-old who ran, “” all wrote and parnes.
Democrats were secretly planning for former President Joe Biden to stop the presidential race or even 'death in office' as early as 2023, a damn new book claims
It claims that high officials for the then vice-president Kamala Harris have drawn up a series of emergency plans for the 81-year-old president
Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes have made the claims in their upcoming book, Fight: Inside the Stytest Battle for the White House
Nevertheless, Biden remained determined to secure a second term, strengthened by his wife, former First Lady Jill Biden – even while making a series of public bushes and blunders.
But when Biden went face-to-face with the then Republican nominated Donald Trump in a debate in the summer, the decreasing mental sharpness of the president was not to deny.
Then former President Barack Obama and other leaders, including former speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi, stepped up to try to convince Biden to resign.
At the same time, they started to see Harris as the only alternative.
“A veteran agent summarized the feelings of Democrats who worry that they would get stuck to Harris, but still wanted Biden to get out:” Well, she has at least a wrist, “” All and Parnes Writing in their book, which will be for sale next week.
Finally, on July 21, Biden announced that he would no longer look for re -election – and Harris endorsed to succeed him as the nominee of the party.
Yet he still demanded complete loyalty from his vice president, according to the book.
When Biden Face-to-Face went with the then Republican-nominated Donald Trump in a debate in the summer, the decreasing mental sharpness of the president was not denying
It says that on the day of Harris' first debate with Trump, Biden the Vice President called for a Peptalk.
However, it turned out to be more instructions to protect Biden's inheritance, with a warning of three words.
“No daylight, kid,” Biden reportedly said to the then 59-year-old Harris.
The former president would do that Use that sense regularly to bind John McCain to George W. Bush prior to the 2008 elections when he ran with Obama.
In the end, all and Parnes or Harris won or lost in her race against Trump ', she would only harm him by publicly distancing herself from him from him' because Biden -Staff employees remained in her campaign.
At one point the authors claim that Sean Clegg -a Harris advisor who was not familiar with the Biden Staff employees -helped the Vice President to prepare for a joint performance with her running Mate Timz, when she started listing things she reached and Bides.
Clegg stopped her quickly, according to the book.
'Wait, wait, wait! Let's not do this. Let's not go to the extent, “Clegg said, according to a fragment that was previously published by De Hill.
For the comment, Clegg was reportedly not broadcast from future media -prep sessions by old DEM communication -employee Stephanie Cutter.
Even after stopping waste, the book claims, demanded Biden loyalty from his vice president
Harris assistants have also claimed that the Biden team deliberately did not work with them because the president was forced to stop.
Biden was previously blamed by senior Harris adviser David Plouffe for her loss because he refused to leave the race earlier.
He had claimed that no democratic candidate could have won without a good primary process – what he called 'the cardinal sin' of this race.
And he said he was shocked by the internal polls when he finally came to the team after Biden stopped with less than four months to go, a situation he described as 'catastrophic'.
'When I came in, it was the first time I saw the actual figures under the hood. They were pretty horrible, “he told the Atlantic Ocean.
In the end Harris and Walz lost Elke Swing -State of Trump, which led to an eruption of the election lecture.
It marked the first Democratic ticket that the popular mood has lost since 2004 and only the second since 1988.
