Scathing new book details Dems plans to replace Biden

A new book is about to hit the shelves regarding the turmoil in the Biden administration.

“Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House” details how Dems were making plans to replace Biden going back to 2023, including plans for Biden dying in office.

Dems Call on Biden to Withdraw

The pressure for Biden to leave the race goes back to the summer of 2024, even though just about every Democrat in the party had backed Biden in his re-election campaign.

Some Dems started to come forward in the spring, but after Biden crashed and burned during the debate, he lost everyone.

The first Democrat to openly call on Biden to drop out was Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), who, on July 2, 2024, said Biden needed to step aside. He was followed by Senator Peter Welch (D-VT), saying that Biden should drop out “for the good of the country.”

By the middle of July, dozens of Democrats came forward calling on Biden to ignore the vote and make the unprecedented move of dropping out after the primary election for no other reason than he was losing in the polls.

Biden Drops Out

On Sunday, July 21, 2024, Biden finally succumbed to the pressure and announced that he was going to leave the race.

Democrat leadership reportedly had a plan to hold a somewhat open primary, but Biden tossed that plan out by immediately endorsing Harris, whom he likely knew would lose, given her lower approval ratings compared to Joe’s.

All of a sudden, all the donor money that had been sitting on the sidelines flooded the DNC, and Harris was actually spotted a lead of about four points in most polls, but it did not take her very long to lose that lead.

And, as we all know, Trump went on to have a landslide victory. Yet, Harris remains the favorite to get the nod in 2028.

The Book

It turns out, while the party was publicly supporting Joe Biden, they were scheming to replace him in the background, including making plans if he died in office.

The authors of the new book wrote, “In hush-hush talks starting in 2023, [DNC] officials gamed out Biden-withdrawal scenarios, according to two people familiar with them.

“They wanted to make sure the party was ready for every possible circumstance: If Biden launched his campaign and then stepped aside before the primaries; if he won a bunch of primaries and then could not continue. If he secured enough delegates for winning the nomination but dropped out before winning a floor vote at the convention, and if he left a vacancy at the top of the ticket after taking the nomination.”

To this day, I maintain the GOP should have challenged Harris’ nomination as unconstitutional, and I think they would have had a great case, but that is all hindsight now. But I think the GOP blew an opportunity to blow that election wide open, as Harris clearly energized the voting base, albeit just a small boost, but that small boost won the Dems some seats in the House they likely would not have had if Biden remained in the election.