Fox News: Biden aides warned donors dropping out and running Kamala Harris would be a mistake: Book

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Biden aides warned donors dropping out and running Kamala Harris would be a mistake: Book

Newly released excerpts of the upcoming book "Fight" detailed more tensions between the Biden and Harris camp ahead of him dropping out of the 2024 race.......                    ...                        ...Aides to President Biden told Democratic donors that it would be a "mistake" for him to drop out of the race in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris, according to an upcoming book.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login on Thursday from "Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House," which detailed tensions between Biden and Harris ahead of him dropping out of the presidential race in July.......The excerpts showed Biden's team "aggressively" pushed back against donors who considered removing him from the race over concerns about his age. One of the ways allegedly included warning that Harris as the replacement Democratic nominee would be a "mistake."......"One donor on the receiving end of an electronic message summed up the sentiments of Biden's top aides: 'They were aggressively saying that we would wind up with the vice-president and that would be a mistake,'" the excerpt read.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......A source also told the book's authors, NBC News reporter Jonathan Allen and The Hill reporter Amie Parnes, that Biden aides emphatically felt "no one wants" Harris as a candidate even if Biden left......."The last threat, the ace in the hole, was Kamala Harris. Even if Biden did drop out and you got your dreamed-up open convention, you would only succeed in nominating the vice-president," the source said. "Is that what you want? You want her? You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login No one wants her. Forget it. It's never gonna happen."......Despite his aides' defense, the book reported Biden wasn't doing well just two days after his You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login against then-candidate Donald Trump in June. In a donors' reception hosted by then-New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, Biden needed florescent tape as "colorful bread crumbs [that] showed the leader of the free world where to walk."......"He knows to look for that," one aide told Parnes and Allen.......Additional excerpts released by The Guardian on Wednesday showed You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login needed an "autocue" to give "unscripted" remarks, with the authors writing that he "didn't look well." Even with the Biden team pushing back against Harris, Democrats appeared largely resigned to Harris.......'Well, at least she has a pulse," one veteran operative summarized.......After Biden dropped out of the race in July, he endorsed Harris and she swiftly sewed up the nomination with no opposition. She went on to lose the general election to Trump.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login reached out to representatives for Biden and Harris for a comment.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......An excerpt of the book released by The Hill earlier this month also showed Biden had "expected Harris to protect his legacy" as she ran for president and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login between them on her campaign......."He would say publicly that Harris should do what she must to win. But privately, including in conversations with her, he repeated an admonition: let there be no daylight between us," the authors wrote......."Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House" will be released in April.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login...

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