Biden has skipped the White House meeting to Trump’s debate for Photoshooting, according to New Book | Books

After the catastrophic debate against Donald Trump, who ultimately ended his political career, Joe Biden skipped a meeting of the White House with the progressive caucus of the congress in favor of a Camp -David photo shoot with fashion photographer Annie Leibovitz, according to a new book.

“You have to cancel this,” said Ron Klain, Biden’s former chief of staff and the preparation leader, the president, when he was committed to securing the confirmation of the group of powerful progressive politicians, who may have the key to his remaining democratic candidate.

“You have to stay in Washington. You have to have an aggressive plan to fight and gather the troops.”

As described by Klain to Chris Whipple, the author of an explosive new book about the 2024 campaign, bidges seemed to “give in”.

“But the President’s determination did not last,” continued the book. “This weekend there were bidges and his family in Camp David and took their pictures” by Leibovitz.

The President spoke of Zoom with the progressive, Whipple writes just to scold them about their attitude towards Israel and to say that they have more progressive than they do.

Whipple Buch, Uncharted: How Trump defeated Biden, Harris and the opportunities in the wildest campaign in history will be released next week. The guard received a copy.

Klain was chief of staff of the White House from 2021 to 2023. He became Chief Legal Officer for Airbnb, but returned to Bidens team in June last June to prepare him for Trump’s debate.

The concern about the fitness of the Octogenic President for the job was a characteristic of Biden’s term of the White House. As reported by The Guardian, Klain said that the preparations for Whipple were alerted debates about bidens physical and intellectual decline.

But Klain said Whipple: “This was about something different than his age. It was a struggle for power in our party.” According to Klain, democratic donors were “tired” of bidies because of his connections to work and wanted a more business -oriented guide.

Such calls became deafening after the debate, in which bidges occurred with painful and confusion. According to Whipple, Klain called the next day, June 28th, and said: “Look, we bleed badly. We have to bring the progressive caucus into the White House this weekend. And you have to agree to you on an agenda for a second term.

“Biden was not convinced:” Well, this weekend I should go to Camp David for a photo shoot with my family. “

Klain offered his “blunt” advice and bidges seemed to withdraw, Whipple writes. But the President left Washington to get a stay with family members, whose widely reported that he was not to push him out of the race.

“Klain was angry,” reports Whipple. “He called (Jeff) Zent, ​​his successor as the chief of staff of the White House. The president had to gather the progressive progressive as soon as possible, Klain told him.

Zents and his team had tried to support bidies from Democrats in the congress, but Klain had “needed more drastic measures”. A zoom call was set up with the progressive. It turned out to be a “fiasco”, whereby bids of the congress under the direction of Pramila Jayapal from the state of Washington “led a scolding” and said: “Everything you are talking about is gaza … What would I do?” And “I was a progressive before some of you were even in the congress.”

Jayapal called Klain. Klain called Zents. Zents gave the least most popular official in the White House on another biden adjutant, Steve Ricchetti, “The Progressive ‘. Klain said to Zents: “Jeff, this is life or death for this presidency this weekend.” Pitched back. Klain was convinced that Biden’s adjutants had no “strategy to save his presidency”.

The battle to carry bidges. On July 21, the President was in line with pressure and terminated. Klain said to Zents: “Jeff, that’s a shame. I think that’s a mistake. I think that was an avoidable tragedy.”

The Vice President of Biden, Kamala Harris, fought against attempts to refuse her nomination, and then fought against a 100-day campaign that was defeated with Trump.

Despite his first -hand experience, fighting bidges and his failure to corrhere to the president, to do simple political footwork instead of taking part in a dazzling photo shoot, Klain still thought that Biden could have won a second term.

In August he said CNN that the president was “clearly the job. He does it every day. He makes it successful.”

He also said Biden “made himself well” in the preparation for debate.