Democratic Party officials and White House staffers were well aware of former President Biden’s frailties ahead of his choice to end his ill-fated reelection bid last summer, The Hill reports.
From a new book, Fight: “Publicly, Democrats scoffed at Republican claims that Biden wasn’t up to the job. But privately, some of them worried all along that they were putting too much stock in an old man who, at best, had long since lost his fastball.”
Tara Palmeri, who interviewed the authors, notes Rep. Nancy Pelosi and senior White House official Anita Dunn tried to convince Biden not to debate Donald Trump in June, “because they knew he wasn’t up to it.”
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