Joe Biden’s doomed effort to remain atop the Democratic ticket in the 2024 presidential election came to a crashing halt last summer after the then-president was made aware of the paltry party support he still had among his former colleagues in the U.S. Senate, a new book reveals.
In their inside account of the tumultuous election, titled simply 2024, Washington Post reporters Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf write that the July 13, 2024 meeting between Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and Biden was only put on the president’s private schedule after the veteran New York senator, with whom Biden served in the upper chamber for a decade, threatened to go public with his request for a sit-down.
