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 GettyGretchen Whitmer, the Michigan governor seen as one of the Democrats' best prospects to replace Joe Biden, has ruled out running, Politico reported Monday.
But the swing state leader delivered a damning message to the campaign aide whom she called, the outlet's Jonathan Martin reported, saying that the president's debate performance will cost him Michigan.
Whitmer called the campaign chair, Jen O'Malley Dillon Friday, after a day of frenzied speculation that she would be a frontrunner if Biden could be persuaded to quit. The second-term swing state governor, however, told O'Malley Dillon that she "hated" her name being floated and that she was loyal to the president.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty ImagesJoe Biden's family told him Sunday to fight on after his disastrous debate performance in a verdict delivered at a Camp David gathering for an Annie Leibovitz photoshoot.
The president's wife, children and grandchildren were at the presidential retreat as a new poll showed three out of four voters do not believe the 81-year-old should seek a second term in the wake of Thursday night's mumbling, stumbling performance.
But instead of counseling the president to announce that he would not seek a second term, the Bidens blamed his staff for failing to prepare him to take on Donald Trump, The New York Times reported.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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