'Totally F**ked Us': Top Dem Adviser Goes Off On Biden

David Plouffe, a apical Democratic advisor and White House adjutant to erstwhile President Barack Obama, laid the blasted for the 2024 predetermination squarely connected erstwhile President Joe Biden successful a caller publication chronicling the striking lead-up to the party’s calamitous defeat. 

“It’s each Biden,” Plouffe told reporters Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, the authors of “Original Sin,” per an excerpt successful The Guardian. “He wholly fucked us.” 

The book, which is 1 of respective to papers Biden’s deterioration and last-minute determination to driblet retired of the statesmanlike race, highlights Democrats’ long-standing concerns astir the erstwhile president’s wellness and the consequences of his refusal to relinquish his candidacy. 

After a disastrous debate performance successful June 2024 exposed Biden’s faltering quality to marque argumentation statements and fueled doubts astir his fittingness for the presidency, helium yet waited 3 further weeks earlier stepping speech and endorsing then-Vice President Kamala Harris.

That delay, successful summation to a lengthy cover-up of Biden’s wellness issues, was catastrophic, galore Democrats — including Plouffe — person emphasized.

“[It] was a fucking nightmare,” helium said, of Harris’ attempts to tract a competitory run successful conscionable 107 days. 

Plouffe, who worked arsenic a Harris run adviser, has taken purpose astatine Biden obliquely successful the past arsenic well. Previously, helium posted connected X astir Democrats’ “devastating” loss, noting that they had to excavation retired of a “deep hole” from the get-go. 

He’s among astir 200 sources that Tapper and Thompson spoke with for their book, which besides revealed that concerns astir Biden’s mobility were truthful dire, advisers considered having him usage a wheelchair during the campaign.