Playbook: “In the ill-fated briefing document, dated April 15, 2024, Biden’s senior advisers told him not to wait for the autumn dates proposed by the Commission on Presidential Debates — the first of which, they noted, was scheduled after mail-in ballots would start going out — but instead to arrange a head-to-head with Trump within a matter of weeks.”
“The memo was obtained by journalists Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf, in the process of reporting their new book, 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America, which is out tomorrow.”
“The book says support for an early debate was not unanimous among the president’s aides, and that some members of Biden world felt he should not go head-to-head with Trump at all. One unnamed donor called the White House in May, the book reports, ‘alarmed’ by a recent appearance by the president at a Chicago fundraiser, and urged his team to ‘find an excuse’ to get him out of the debates. This was rejected out of hand.”
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