Democratic officials organized “Cover Talks” to plan Joe Biden’s departure as the party’s presidential candidate in 2023, a new book said.
Referring to two unnamed sources, the account of Jonathan Alan’s authors and AI adds another turn to the painful age and fitness of the president, which was not resolved until it was a catastrophic debate against Donald Trump did not sustain his exit in July 2024.
Strongerly, the book also reports that they are supporting Kamala Harris, the vice president, who took over the nomination, then was lost by Trump, “strategized by the ability of Biden to die in service.”
Such planning was led by Jamal Simmons, the Director of Communications in the White House of Harris, Parnes and Allen Report, and came to the preparation of the “list of death of death” by federal judges who could swear in Harris.
Simmons “has never told the Vice President of the Death of Death of Death before leaving his camp in January 2023,” the authors wrote, “but he advised his colleagues that they should be informed immediately if something happened to Biden, as he had worked out.
Wrestling: In the worst battle for the White House is Alan and the third book of Person’s campaign after Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016 and a defeat by Biden in 2020. The new book was published next week. Guardian received a copy.
Pernce and Allen describe questions about Biden’s gym, which grew through the entire election cycle in 2024. Trump and Republicans took over the age of Biden, while the Biden and White House assistants strongly insisted that he was fit for a four -year term.
The excerpts already published from the battle refer to the events after Biden withdrew: Harris’s powerlessness from being unable to distance herself from Biden, an unpopular president, and the failure of her team to land an interview with Joe Rogan, the influential podcactor, whose three -hour chat is considered.
But Pers and Allen dedicate the first half of their book to Long, painful, public decline to Biden, leading to his historical decision to withdraw while in service and is eligible for a second four -year term.
The first part of the battle is called the president’s redirection, a nod to the establishment of the President 1960, the Seminary Book of Theodore X White for John F Kennedy’s victory over Richard Nixon. The second part is called whatever is needed, a reference to the classic of Richard Ben Cremer in the 1988 election – in which Biden plays a prominent role as a young democratic senator whose first presidential campaign crashed and burned in public.
When he dropped out in 1987, Biden was 44 years old. In 2020, when his third presidential start ended with a victory over Trump, he was 77. In 2023, after two years as the oldest president he ever discovered, he had passed 80 – and showed it.
“A handful of employees of the Democratic National Committee had already considered plans for emergencies,” Alan and Person wrote. “In the Hush-Hush conversations beginning in 2023, these employees took advantage of Biden-Withdrawal scripts, according to two people familiar with them.
“They wanted to make sure the party was ready for every possible circumstance: if Biden launched his campaign and then retreats to primers; if he won a bunch of primers and then he could not continue. If he provided enough delegates to win the nomination, he refused, after winning the convention and left the convention.
According to Pers and Alan, the planning of Hash-Hash is focused on what the party’s rules say that it will happen in any such scenario “and how they may have to be changed if the president no longer has the desire or ability to run.”
“An employee involved in the secret negotiations made a great sense of fear that Biden would not reach election day as a party candidate:” This shows what we need to do to prepare with the unique circumstances we had, which was the president of the 80-year-old youth who was running. “
Biden remains determined, full of family, including his wife, Jill Biden, and a legitimate alarmed son Hunter Biden and veterans aid. Pernce and Allen describe the tension between such factions, but also chaotic preparations about what has turned out to be Biden-Trump’s only debate. This 80-minute meeting took place in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 27. Biden’s performance – firm, confused and weak – has decreased in history as perhaps the most catastrophic of all time.
However, it took nearly a month for party pressure to build on sufficient terrain to force Biden to give up his grip on power.
Related: A new book on details of “concealing” the decline of Biden’s health before the 2024 election.
In a particularly striking passage, Pernce and Allen describe the admission of donors, hosting Phil Murphy, then governor of New Jersey, on June 29, 2024, two days after the debate crash. It is reported, [that] He showed the leader of the free world where to go. “
“He knows how to look for this,” an assistant explained.
At the same event, according to the messages, Biden needs an auto cocation for “unwritten” remarks and then speaks stopping in questions and answers with Murphy.
“He didn’t look good,” the authors write. “It didn’t sound vital.”
Such moments only increase the pressure of the party. Alan and Pernce report an exceptional conversation between Biden and Barack Obama, whom Biden was Vice President between 2009 and 2017. In this way, they quote Obama, but present Biden’s thoughts in italics, indicative of the close supply, perhaps from Biden himself.
“What is your way?” Obama asked.
“What is my way? Biden thought as she listened to Obama. What is your fucking plan?“
Such a high drama is eventually combined with brutal pathos. Pers and Alan reports Obama and other party grandsons eventually returned to Harris as Biden’s only alternative.
“An operational veteran summarized the moods of the Democrats who were worried that they would crash with Harris, but still wanted Biden,” Well, at least she has a pulse. “