One of President Biden’s top advisers described the coronavirus pandemic as “the best thing that ever happened” to Biden, reveals a new book.
Biden’s adviser, Anita Dunn, made the revealing comment in a conversation with “an associate” during the campaign, veteran journalists Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes revealed in their book.
Dunn’s comment was something that “campaign officials believed, but would never say in public,” wrote the authors in “Lucky: How Joe Biden barely won the presidency”, due out next week.
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The bombastic comment was first reported on Wednesday by The Guardian, which obtained an advance copy of the book.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki did not immediately return a request for comment on Dunn’s comment.
Dunn, a veteran operative Democrat, temporarily joined the White House as a senior adviser after playing a similar role in the campaign. She was previously an adviser to former President Barack Obama and served as director of communications at her White House.
US CORONAVIRUS DEATH TOLL EXCEEDS 500,000
On Tuesday, the United States reached 500,000 deaths due to COVID-19 – a macabre milestone that Biden recognized with a solemn ceremony and an appeal to Americans to “remember those we lost and those we left behind”.
The 500,000 death mark occurred about a month after the United States reached 400,000 deaths due to the new coronavirus.
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According to Johns Hopkins University, there have been more than 112 million cases of COVID-19 reported worldwide, with almost 2.5 million deaths. More than 63 million people have recovered from the virus.