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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Joe Sommerlad

UNCOVERED: No daylight biden refused to let harris break with him on policy issues during campaign new book alleges | History Defined

President Joe Biden refused to allow Vice President Kamala Harris to establish “daylight” between his policies and hers when she succeeded him as the Democratic presidential nominee last summer, an insistence that hamstrung her campaign and ultimately contributed to her defeat to Donald Trump at the polls, a new book alleges.

An excerpt from the forthcoming Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, published by The Hill, emphasizes that both Harris and Trump “understood the importance of being seen as the bigger change agent” due to the unpopularity of the Biden administration.

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