Kamala Harris was left aghast when President Joe Biden donned a “Trump 2024” cap at a Pennsylvania firehouse in a bizarre scene at the height of last year’s presidential race, a bombshell new book has revealed.
During a visit to a Shanksville firehouse while commemorating the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Biden, now 82, posed with more than a dozen youngsters clad in pro-Trump attire — then briefly put on the cap after being egged on by a member of the crowd.
“What is he doing?” Harris — by that point the Democratic nominee after Biden ended his re-election bid July 21 — asked her advisers, according to the new book “Original Sin,” co-authored by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson.
“This is completely unhelpful,” the veep added. “And so unnecessary.”
At that point, the Democratic campaign decided to stop holding any public events with Biden before the Nov. 5 election — but the president’s unpopular, gaffe-laden presence continued to loom over the campaign.
According to Tapper and Thompson, Harris advisers adopted “gallows humor” about Biden’s many missteps — such as when he told party loyalists at a New Hampshire campaign office Oct. 22 that “we gotta lock him up” in reference to the former president and then-Republican nominee.
Meanwhile, the authors report, Biden “had seen [Bill] Clinton and [Barack] Obama and others out on the campaign trail and wanted to be out there too. He didn’t seem to understand what a liability he had become.”
“Original Sin” is available now.
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