One top Harris aide is voicing his frustration Biden, blaming the 82-year-old for his vice president’s loss in the 2024 election, according a new book.
A top aide to Kamala Harris is voicing his frustration about former President Joe Biden, blaming the 82-year-old for the then-vice president’s loss in the 2024 election, according to an excerpt of Alex Thompson and Jake Tapper’s new book.
David Plouffe, a former top adviser to Obama, told Tapper and Thompson that running the Harris campaign was “a fucking nightmare,” arguing that “it’s all Biden” who cost the election for the former vice president, an excerpt of “Original Sin” shared with The Guardian reads. He “totally fucked us,” Plouffe reportedly added.
Biden faced an onslaught of calls to drop out of the 2024 race for president after his disastrous debate performance in June 2024. The former president held onto his bid for the White House for several more weeks as the pressure mounted.
“It was an abomination. He stole an election from the Democratic Party; he stole it from the American people,” one prominent Democratic strategist told Thompson and Tapper of Biden’s decision to run again.
Thompson and Tapper’s book is based on 200 interviews, including members of Congress and White House and campaign insiders, The Guardian reported.
