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The Guardian - US
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Martin Pengelly in Washington

Biden aides argued dropping out would bring ‘mistake’ of Harris, book claims

a woman and a man stand during a memorial service
Kamala Harris and Joe Biden attend a 9/11 memorial in New York on 11 September 2024. Photograph: Michael M Santiago/Getty Images

Top aides to Joe Biden “aggressively” warned Democratic donors last summer that if the then president was forced out of the 2024 election over concerns about his age and fitness, the party would inevitably make the “mistake” of running the vice-president, Kamala Harris, against Donald Trump, a new book says.

“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.’”

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