The last thing our ailing campaign needed was rumors of a rift between the president and me. What I didn’t know then was that some of his senior staff didn’t share that concern. In their own calls trying to quell the rebellion, they’d been talking me down, saying, If Joe goes, you’ll get her, strongly implying that I wasn’t up to it. It was just one of the many ways his staff was responding badly to the crisis. They’d started cramming his schedule with more events, knowing full well that when he was tired, he did poorly. Hunter Biden’s trial was underway, and I suppose the campaign wanted to
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