Raphael Warnock for president? ‘Original Sin’ says, it could’ve happened in ‘24

Democrat advisor David Plouffe: Georgia senator would have ‘kicked the tires’ on White House bid.
Published: Jun. 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM EDT
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ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Yet another book that has been published in the wake of Democrats’ disastrous 2024 national elections features another Georgia political tidbit.

In “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” authors Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson cite David Plouffe, Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign manager.

“If Biden had decided in 2023 to drop out, we would have had a robust primary,” Plouffe is quoted as saying. “Whitmer, Pritzker, Newsom, Buttigieg, Harris, and Klobuchar would have run. Warnock and Shapiro would have kicked the tires. Maybe Mark Cuban or a businessperson of some sort.

“Twenty percent of governors and 30 percent of senators would have thought about it. We would have been eminently stronger,” Plouffe said.

Plouffe’s quote refers to Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer; Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker; California Gov. Gavin Newsom; then-U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg; then-Vice President Kamala Harris; U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnesota; and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro.

“Original Sin” follows “Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House, which released April 1 and authored by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes. That book said Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams was close enough to becoming Biden’s 2020 running mate that Harris’ team of political operatives ran a “dark arts operation to undermine the competition, circulating negative information on [Harris’] rivals.

“We stabbed Karen Bass a little bit,” one of Harris’ advisors recollected to Allen and Parnes. “We stabbed Susan Rice a little bit. We stabbed Stacey Abrams a little bit. We stabbed Gretchen Whitmer.”

Biden abandoned his reelection campaign only weeks after a disastrous Atlanta debate performance against Republican Donald Trump.

Last month, Biden’s office announced the 46th president has been diagnosed with prostate cancer.

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