Then-President Joe Biden, right, and now-President Donald Trump during the first presidential debate in Atlanta. (Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Plouffe is far from the only one who believes that Biden undercut his own party running again in 2024 as his faculties began to decline.
A senior White House aide described in the book that "we attempted to shield him from his own staff so many people didn’t realize the extent of the decline beginning in 2023."
The aide, who ultimately departed the White House because they did not believe Biden should run in 2024, described Biden's decision to run for a second term as a "disservice" to the country and Democrats.
"I love Joe Biden. When it comes to decency, there are few in politics like him," the aide said in the book, which is slated for release Tuesday. "Still, it was a disservice to the country and to the party for his family and advisers to allow him to run again."
David Plouffe, former President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign manager, is far from the only one who believes that President Joe Biden undercut his own party running again in 2024 as his faculties began to decline.
For example, the book, "Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History," also detailed how the White House kept Biden from socializing even with those he regarded as friends and allies.
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However, that book, authored by Chris Whipple, a former producer for CBS’ "60 Minutes," said that one White House aide suggested "walling Biden off from the world was a grave mistake."
"‘They were afraid he might say the wrong thing or might feed the mental acuity narrative,’ he told me. ‘And so he started seeing fewer and fewer people. They allowed his faculties to atrophy. But I think, like knives, they have to be sharpened. They get sharpened by rubbing them up against steel. And they don’t get sharpened by sitting in a drawer,’" Whipple wrote.
Diana Stancy is a politics reporter with Fox News Digital covering the White House.
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