Color me very skeptical about this claim, even though it comes from people with obviously good connections. Former Obama adviser Jon Favreau co-hosts Pod Save America with fellow Obamaites Tommy Vietor and Dan Pfeiffer, and on Friday, they conducted their own post-mortem of Kamala Harris’s stunning loss to Donald Trump.
The trio targeted Joe Biden as the author of this electoral catastrophe, blaming the outgoing quasi-president for refusing to accept that he had become deeply unpopular and that inflation had ruined his chances for re-election. Right up until the disastrous debate, Favreau claims, Biden and his team told reporters that their polling showed he had the best chance to win the election and that Kamala Harris had no shot at all. (Events would prove them correct, which Favreau fails to mention.)
However, Favreau accuses Biden of lying about their…