Karine Jean-Pierre book excerpt on working for ‘doomed’ candidates resurfaces

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White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, who as soon as wrote about what it feels prefer to work for faltering political candidates, says it feels “completely completely different now” to be working for President Biden.

An excerpt of her 2019 guide went viral this week that was headlined, “What it is like working for a doomed presidential candidate.” Jean-Pierre responded to the resurfaced penning this week by praising her embattled boss, who’s going through calls to step down from some Democrats and liberal pundits after his alarming debate efficiency.

“I can inform you now feels completely completely different, working for the very best President in fashionable historical past, whose agenda of combating for the center class and defending freedoms and the rule of legislation unites the American folks,” Jean-Pierre informed Fox Information Digital.

In an excerpt of the guide printed in Salon, the then-MSNBC political analyst supplied her account of working for each former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards and former Rep. Anthony Weiner, whose careers each finally collapsed over intercourse scandals.

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White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. (Alex Wong/Getty Pictures)

“What makes a politician profitable can also be what can flip them — generally — into entitled narcissists who imagine they’ll get away with issues mere mortals can not,” Jean-Pierre wrote in “”Transferring Ahead: A Story of Hope, Onerous Work, and the Promise of America.”

“There’s nothing extra dispiriting than engaged on a dying marketing campaign. The environment resembles a kind of unhappy beginning­day balloons with the air slowly seeping out because it deflates,” she wrote.

Jean-Pierre’s article resurfaced as she serves as chief spokesperson for a president whose health for workplace is underneath its most critical scrutiny but. Biden’s re-election likelihood is being questioned by a rising variety of Democrats after his extensively criticized efficiency at Thursday’s presidential debate that raised extra questions on his well being and psychological viability.

Jean-Pierre admitted Tuesday that Biden had a “dangerous evening,” however insisted that he “is aware of the way to do the job” of president. 

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White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre just lately admitted that President Biden had a “dangerous evening” throughout Thursday’s debate. (Getty Pictures)

The present White Home official’s article from 4 years in the past described her time engaged on Edwards’ presidential marketing campaign through the 2008 presidential cycle. An afterthought within the race between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, Edwards dropped out after failing to win any primaries. He later admitted to an extramarital affair whereas his spouse was sick with most cancers and his political prospects by no means recovered.

“Did I or any of the opposite midlevel staffers have any concept that Edwards was conducting a torrid affair with the marketing campaign vid­eographer, a lady named Rielle Hunter? Or that the couple would conceive a daughter after which attempt to get one among Edwards’s closest marketing campaign aides to assert that he, Andrew Younger, was the daddy?” Jean-Pierre wrote.

Jean-Pierre mentioned she didn’t know these particulars on the time, including not working for Obama’s marketing campaign from the beginning as a substitute was one among her biggest regrets. She later labored on his profitable common election marketing campaign.

Jean-Pierre additionally raved about Weiner’s political talents however famous that of his many presents, “self-control” wasn’t one among them. Weiner’s sexting habits derailed his congressional profession and 2013 New York Metropolis mayoral bid, and he finally served jail time for transferring obscene materials to a minor.

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New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin throughout his ill-fated 2013 New York mayoral bid. (Reuters/Eric Thayer/File Photograph)

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“So I finish this cautionary story on ‘flawed candidates’ with this warning: imagine within the mission, not the messenger. You, the volunteer or staffer, ought to imagine within the politician’s mission, their objective of fixing society, greater than within the poli­tician him or herself,” Jean-Pierre wrote.

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