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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Lloyd Green

Fight by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes review – scathing account of Biden, Harris and their election loss

A man and a woman in suits waving at a crowd.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris wave to members of the audience after speaking at a campaign rally at Girard College on 29 May 2024 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Photograph: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

In their book Fight, Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes offer an account of the “Wildest Battle for the White House” – and a scathing indictment of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the losers of that battle.

By 2023, a year before the campaign, Biden’s age and fitness to be president were the topic of conversation among senior aides. He had difficulty stringing together a coherent sentence, yet there was no serious discussion of his exiting the ticket until it was way, way too late. Harris, meanwhile, was isolated in her party and terrified of facing the press. She took the wheel of a badly listing ship. It sank.

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