Commentary: Book: Obama Feared Biden May Become 'Tragicomic Caricature Of An Aging Politician Having His Last Hurrah'
Harsh realities have been unleashed by a new book. “Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency,” published Tuesday, says the 78-year-old Biden won the White House because the coronavirus allowed his team to hide him…
Harsh realities have been unleashed by a new book.
“Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency,” published Tuesday, says the 78-year-old Biden won the White House because the coronavirus allowed his team to hide him from the public eye, according to Fox News.
The Biden camp’s strategy was described as “you put your dumb uncle in the basement,” according to the book.
The authors of “Lucky” — NBC News political analyst Jonathan Allen and The Hill senior correspondent Amie Parnes — wrote that “the stars aligned” for the twice-failed presidential hopeful in November.
According to the book, in May, following a Biden interview on CNN, then-President Donald Trump asked Kellyanne Conway for her thoughts.
“I think if we lose to him, we are pathetic,” the top aide responded.
The authors quoted a Trump adviser as saying Biden’s team “used coronavirus as an excuse to keep him in the basement, and it was smart.”
That wasn’t a euphemism; Biden’s team converted the basement of his Wilmington, Delaware, home into a makeshift studio so that Biden would be able to comfortably gives statements during the lockdown, according to the book.