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* Anita Dunn said privately what aides would never say in public
* Cautious campaigning won pandemic battle with Trump
Martin Pengelly in New York
@MartinPengelly
Wed 24 Feb 2021 07.40 EST
A senior adviser to Democrat Joe Biden in his campaign for president believed Covid is the best thing that ever happened to him, a new book reports.
It was, the authors add, a necessarily private comment that campaign officials believed but would never say in public as the US reeled from the impact of the pandemic amid hospitals stretched to breaking and with deaths mounting and the economy falling off a cliff.
The remark, made to an associate by Anita Dunn, a Washington powerbroker who the Atlantic called The Mastermind Behind Bidens No-Drama Approach to Trump, is reported in Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency, by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes.
The first major book on the 2020 election, a campaign indelibly marked by the coronavirus, will be published next week. The Guardian obtained a copy.
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KarenS
(4,060 posts)uncharacteristic for something like this to slip out,,,,
having said that I have thought for a long time now that it was COVID that helped defeat Trump,,,, That's when he really started losing support,,,, That's when my Libertarian Dad backed off on his support,,,,
but 'the best thing' to happen to Biden? yikes,,,,, that's a terrible thing to say.
BSdetect
(8,994 posts)mwooldri
(10,299 posts)Don the Con's handling of the pandemic was the best thing to happen to Joe Biden politically. Had #45 actually done the right thing we'd probably (IMO) be looking at another four years of that man in charge. But nope, he screwed up bigly and that's the reason he lost IMO.
BeyondGeography
(39,339 posts)How about the rest of us? Looking back, the election resultif a little over 20k people changed their vote in WI, AZ and GA were tied at 269 EVs and good luck with thatmakes it very hard to argue that Caligula wasnt on his way to two terms without his utterly botched response to COVID. Were a very messed up country.
Kahuna
(27,311 posts)I know he doesn't like Biden because he and I had quite a back and forth on Twitter over the "busing" issue. He was intent on portraying Biden as racist because of that and I wasn't having it.
still_one
(92,058 posts)Campaign which was a disingenuous and biased book
still_one
(92,058 posts)doc03
(35,292 posts)the way he handled the COVID-19. If this was reversed and a Democrat was in office and botched it like The Loser"
Franklin Graham and others would be claiming there was divine intervention.
still_one
(92,058 posts)own words.
Trump handled covid the same way he handles everything, with arrogance and lack of compassion
He did a lot of damage in so many areas, but they went unnoticed because their effects were evident to most people. The mishandling of the pandemic was obvious, and touched everyone