Democratic officials organized “noisy talks” to plan to withdraw Joe Biden as a party’s presidential candidate early in 2023, says a new book.
Quoted by two sources whose identity was not revealed, the authors of Jonathan Allen and my mother Barnes add another development to the tired epic on the president’s era and his fitness that was not resolved until it led a catastrophic debate against Donald Trump to establish it exit In July 2024.
More surprisingly, the book also states that Kamala Harris’s assistants, the vice president who took over and then lost to Trump, “a strategy about the possibility of Biden to die in office.”
This planning was led by Jamal Simons, the White House Communications Director in Harris, Parnes and Allen Report, and went to the extent of eradication of the “deathway list” for federal judges who might divide Harris.
“Simons has never informed the vice president about the total death list before leaving her camp in January 2023,” the authors write, “but he advised colleagues that he should be notified immediately if something happened to Jeddin, because he had set a full communication strategy. The spreadsheet left with the last Harris.”
Fighting: Inside the fiercest battle for the White House It is Allen and Parnes’s third campaigns after studies on Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016 and defeated Biden in 2020. The new book was published next week. The guardian got a copy.
Parnes and Allen describes questions about the physical fitness that has grown throughout the 2024 election session. Trump and the Republicans seized the age of Biden while Biden and the White House insisted heavily that he was fit for another four years.
The already deployed fighting excerpts after Biden’s withdrawal relate to: Harris’s frustration because of his inability to move away from Biden, a president who is unpopular, and her team failed to get an interview with Joe Rogan, the influential broadcaster who was seen on the Trump conversation that lasted three hours with Trump.
But Barnes and Elien devoted the first half of their book to retreat Biden the long and painful, which led to his historical decision to step down while he was in office and qualified for a second for four years.
The first part of the fighting is called the president, a reference to the president’s manufacture in 1960, Theodore White’s basic book on John F. Kennedy’s victory over Richard Nixon. The second part was called what took it, referring to Richard Bin Kramer, the classic in the 1988 elections – where Biden plays a prominent role as a young democratic and a young democratic that was shattered and burned in public places.
When he came out in 1987, Biden was forty -four years old. In 2020, when his third presidential tour ended on Trump, he was 77 years old. In 2023, two years later, he was the oldest president ever, and he had more than eighty – and showed him.
“A handful of officials of the National Democratic Committee have already thought of emergency plans,” Allen and Parles writes. “In the Hush-Hush conversations that begin in 2023, these officials have directed Biden-Withdrawal, according to two people familiar with them.
“They wanted to make sure that the party was ready for every possible circumstance: if Biden launched its campaign, then he deviated in front of the preliminary elections; if he won a set of primaries, then he could not continue.
According to Parnes and Allen, “Silence” is focused on what the party’s rules said in any such scenario.
“One of the officials participating in the secret talks put a good point on the fear that Biden will not reach the Election Day as a candidate for the party:” He explains what we had to do to prepare with the unique circumstances that we had, which was a 80 -year -old president who was running. “
Biden remained a designer, as the family, including his wife, Jel Biden and his legally turbulent son, Hunter Biden, and by veteran assistants. Parnes and Allen describes tensions between these factions, but also the chaotic preparations for what it turns out to be the only Biden Trump’s discussion. This meeting was held for 80 minutes in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 27. Biden’s performance – harsh, confused and weak – has decreased in history as the most disastrous ever.
However, it took nearly a month to pressure the party to build to a sufficient stadium to force Biden to give up his grip on power.
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On a particularly amazing corridor, Barnes and Eline describes a reception for donors hosted by Phil Murphy, then the Governor of New Jersey, on June 29, 2024, two days after the discussion disaster. It is said that Biden needs to be a Florecent tape fixed on the carpet, “colored bread crumbs [that] The leader of the free world showed where to walk. “
“He knows to look for it,” one of the assistants explained.
At the same event, Biden was said to have a “non -fortified” statements and then he spoke in a question and answer with Murphy.
“It didn’t look good,” the authors write. “It didn’t seem vital.”
Such moments increased only party pressure. Allen and Parnes reported an extraordinary conversation between Biden and Barack Obama, who was Biden as their deputy between 2009 and 2017. Thus, Obama quotes but they present Biden’s ideas in a oblique line, indicating the identification of close sources, perhaps from Biden himself.
“What is your way?” He asked Obama.
“What is my way? Biden thought he listened to Obama. What is your solemn plan?“
Such a high drama eventually coincides with brutal heirs. Barnes and Ellen reported how Obama and other party parties supported Harris as the only alternative to Biden.
“One of the veteran workers summarized the feelings of Democrats who worried that they will stumble with Harris, but they still want to go out:” Good, at least she has a pulse. “
