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Democrats Held Secret Talks to Drop Biden in 2023

March 26, 2025 at 9:19 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Democratic officials staged “hush-hush talks” to plan for Joe Biden’s withdrawal as the party’s presidential nominee as early as 2023, says a new book, The Guardian reports.

The book also reports that aides to Kamala Harris, the vice-president who assumed the nomination then lost to Trump, “strategized around the possibility that Biden might die in office.”

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