David Plouffe, a top adviser to former Vice President Harris’s 2024 campaign, describes the race against President Trump as “a f—ing nightmare.”
The pundit cast blame on former President Biden for his late-stage decision to withdraw from the race, according to a new book set to be released next week.
“He totally f—ed us,” Plouffe is quoted say in “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.”
The book, co-written by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’s Alex Thompson, is scheduled to be released May 20. Early copies have gone out to some media outlets in promotion, including The Guardian, which revealed Plouffe’s remarks.
Biden dropped his reelection bid race after a disastrous debate against Trump that fueled already lingering questions about his age and mental capacity to serve another four-year term. He endorsed Harris, who accepted the uncontested Democratic nomination at the party’s convention last August, with just over 100 days to mount a campaign against Trump.
Biden, 82, has been on a media blitz ahead of the book’s release and has downplayed his role in Harris’s loss. He said during a recent appearance on ABC’s “The View” that he blames himself for Trump’s return to the White House this year — and thinks he would have won if he stayed in the race.
“I was confident I would beat Trump,” the former president told “The View” hosts last Thursday. “He’s a loser.”
Biden noted in a separate BBC interview that he didn’t regret waiting until after the debate against Trump to withdraw, saying, “I don’t know how that would have made much of a difference.”
Plouffe, who also worked on former President Obama’s campaign and as an adviser under Obama’s administration, told the “Original Sin” authors that Harris’s campaign was “a f—ing nightmare.”
“And it’s all Biden,” Plouffe added, according to The Guardian’s reporting.
Plouffe, 57, had already appeared to direct blame toward Biden shortly after Election Day and ultimately deleted his account on social platform X following backlash.
“We dug out of a deep hole but not enough,” he wrote in one of his final posts last fall. “A devastating loss. Thanks for being in the arena, all of you.”
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