In the days following her humiliating defeat in the presidential election, aides to Kamala Harris repeatedly argued that they were hamstrung by Joe Biden's stubbornly late withdrawal from the race, leaving them scrambling to wantonly throw together a campaign from scratch in just a little over three months.

It turns out they had been planning the scenario since early 2023, including wargaming for a scenario in which Biden, unfortunately, passed away while in office.

This, according to an excerpt from “FIGHT: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House,” a book by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes.

The Guardian obtained passages from the book, set to publish on April 1st, noting that Democrats had conducted “hush-hush talks” on procedures and rules that would have to be followed if the octogenarian could not or would not run.

One official involved in secret talks put a fine point on the fear that Biden would not make it to election day as the party’s nominee: ‘It shows what we had to do to prepare with the unique circumstances we had, which was an 80-plus-year-old president who was running.

They planned for every scenario: If he left before the primaries, if he went after the primaries, if he left against his will.

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Aides reportedly "strategized around the possibility that Biden might die in office," including having Jamal Simmons, Kamala Harris’s White House communications director at the time, develop a “death-pool roster” of federal judges who could administer the oath of office to the then-Vice President.

Simmons developed a spreadsheet that he left behind with another Harris aide when he left her office in January of 2023.

January. 2023.

All of this puts a spotlight on the fact that the White House consistently argued during that time that Joe Biden was a vigorous, healthy man who often ran circles around his staff, even as they game-planned for him to be unable to run.

Dr. Kevin O’Connor administered a physical for Biden in February of 2024, happily declaring that he was a “robust 81-year-old male” who was “fit for duty” as leader of the free world.

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"President Biden is a healthy, active, robust 81-year-old male, who remains fit to successfully execute the duties of the presidency."https://t.co/5RMYOMLodx pic.twitter.com/SnveCsG5fP

— Mr Producer (@RichSementa) February 28, 2024

I don't know, man. People don't start 'death pool' scenarios for people who are fit for duty. Typically, anyway.

The medical board might want to look deeper into Dr. O'Connor when they have a minute.

Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre used O'Connor's assessment to suggest Biden was also mentally fit for duty, as evidenced by how well he handled cognitive tasks during his everyday routine.

"The president proves every day how he operates, how he thinks," she told reporters.

The remark was seemingly made in the hopes that the American public did not have 24/7 access to video evidence to the contrary.

“I have known this president since 2009,” Jean-Pierre added. “I — he is not just my — my boss, but, you know, he’s also some- — a mentor to me. And I spent sometimes countless hours with him, whether it’s in the Oval Office, whether it’s on the road.”

“And I believe, for me — you’re asking me my personal opinion — he is sharp,” she said. “He is on top of things.”

Doocy: "If the Special Counsel says President Biden has got significant limitations on his memory, then who is helping him run the country?”

WH press sec: "The president of the United States runs the country"

Doocy: "How can he be trusted with the nuclear codes?" pic.twitter.com/XT2WHIVKaD

— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) February 9, 2024

Biden's aides maintained that position—that he was sharp—right up until the presidential debate against Donald Trump, when the curtain was finally peeled back so far that all the spin in the world couldn't cover for them anymore.

In a particularly shocking entry in the new book, Allen and Parnes explain that in the days following that debacle, Biden actually had to be led around and directed where to walk by placing neon-colored pieces of tape on the floor.

The former President attended a donors’ reception hosted by Phil Murphy, governor of New Jersey, where aides lined the carpet with fluorescent "colorful bread crumbs [that] showed the leader of the free world where to walk."

The Commander-in-Chief had to be left little colorful treats to navigate. Like a decently trained dog.

“He knows to look for that,” one aide said, according to The Guardian.

Good boy.

RedState's Sister Toldjah reported that Biden's aides - even with the backdrop of a "death-pool" scenario, the debate performance, and the need to lead him around quite literally every step of the way - tried to choreograph interviews with leftist radio hosts that would only release "approved" quotes "designed to reassure voters and make his nightmarish debate appearance look like a one-off."

It was never a one-off. It had been developing for years. They knew how bad the scenario was, and if they could have, they would have carried it right through to November—and beyond.

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