Biden aides argued dropping out would bring ‘mistake’ of Harris, book claims
by Martin Pengelly in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#6W71F)
Top aides aggressively' made case to Democratic donors last summer, according to account of 2024 campaign by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes
Top aides to Joe Biden aggressively" warned Democratic donors last summer that if the then president was forced out of the 2024 election over concerns about his age and fitness, the party would inevitably make the mistake" of running the vice-president, Kamala Harris, against Donald Trump, a new book says.
One donor on the receiving end of an electronic message summed up the sentiments of Biden's top aides: They were aggressively saying that we would wind up with the vice-president and that would be a mistake.'"
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