Key aide said Covid was 'the best thing that ever happened' to Biden, book says

[DonViejo]

* 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 Biden’s 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]

1. ok,,,,

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]

2. When you give the msm any scrap of BS fodder they will exploit it. Just STFU

[mwooldri]

3. Horrible thing to say.

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]

4. Forget Biden

How about the rest of us? Looking back, the election result—if a little over 20k people changed their vote in WI, AZ and GA we’re tied at 269 EV’s and good luck with that—makes it very hard to argue that Caligula wasn’t on his way to two terms without his utterly botched response to COVID. We’re a very messed up country.

[Kahuna]

5. Jonathan Allen doesn't like Biden so I'd take his reporting with a grain of salt..

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]

8. No surprise that this is from those who wrote Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed

Campaign which was a disingenuous and biased book

[still_one]

6. Why am I not surprised this is from Hillary Clinton hating Allen and Parnes.

[doc03]

7. I have thought all along that "The Loser" would have been re-elected if not for

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]

9. That is the conclusion that Bob Woodward said in his book Rage, which was trump in his

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