More revelations from Donna Brazile. Via the AP:
The former head of the Democratic National Committee says she considered replacing Hillary Clinton as the party’s presidential nominee with then-Vice President Joe Biden.
Donna Brazile makes the revelation in a memoir being released Tuesday, according to the Washington Post, which obtained an advance copy of “Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns that Put Donald Trump in the White House.”
Brazile wrote that she considered initiating Clinton’s removal after she collapsed while leaving a 9/11 memorial service in New York City. Clinton later acknowledged she was suffering from pneumonia.
But Brazile said the larger issue was that her campaign was “anemic” and had taken on “the odor of failure.”
After considering a dozen combinations to replace Clinton and her running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine from Virginia, Brazile wrote that she settled on Biden and Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey as those with the best chance of defeating Trump.
Ultimately, the former DNC head says, “I thought of Hillary, and all the women in the country who were so proud of and excited about her. I could not do this to them.”