Michael Bender writes in Frankly, We Did Win This Election that Donald Trump “held back on focusing his firepower on Joe Biden during the primary stage of the election because he was convinced that the Democratic Party was scheming to switch out now president Biden for a different candidate—such as Hillary Clinton or Michelle Obama—over the summer,” Vanity Fair reports.
The source of this conspiracy theory was Dick Morris, a former Clinton White House adviser who was “quietly advising Trump” last year.
“Dick Morris told Trump that Biden was too old and too prone to gaffes to be the nominee. Others said Fox News anchor Sean Hannity expressed concern that Biden would collapse under a sustained attack from Trump.”
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