Former president Joe Biden Makeup is regularly used hide his age, and Kamala Harris‘With the team had a strategy in place In case he passed while in office, according to the new book written by two political journalists.
Revelation come from a paragraph of the upcoming book FIGHT: Inside the wildest battle for white housewrote Brdo ‘With Amie Parnes and NBC News Jonathan Allen.
Biden regularly met with artist’s makeup while traveling and before zoom calls with assistants to cover the signs of agingAccording to paragraphs inspected by Hill. Biden has consistently set these meetings, but sometimes they canceled briefings that were supposed to follow.
Harris assistants They also had crisis plans in case Biden died in the office, Stars and Allen. This included the budget list of Republican Judges Donald Trump I didn’t appoint. In this way, if Harris should swear in a short time, a judge could do so, which is not in Trump camp, but who would still see the Republicans as credible.
Harris was not aware of this spreadsheet, according to sources reviewed Hill. However, the assistant who put him together in January 2023. and he sent his colleagues to contact him immediately if Biden passed because he had a strategy prepared strategy.
“It shows what we had to do to prepare with the unique circumstances we had, who was the president of eighty years that led,” said a democratic official, towards the hill.
Independent He contacted the Biden and Harris’ comment office.
Concerns about the age of Biden – he was 82 when he left office – he stepped up as his re-election campaign from the field in 2023. years. Concern about his ability to serve the pinnacle in June 2024. Years.
After the discussion, the Democrats invited Biden to deviate and pass the palace of the younger candidate. Less than a month later, Biden bet from the race and supported Harris.
Harris would find that he loses Trump Presidency, earning only 226 election votes for his 312.
“Javno, Democrats mitigated in republican claims that Biden was not at work,” Parans and Allen wrote. “But private, some were worried all the time that they put too much stock in the old man who at best, lost Fastball for a long time.”