Chuck Todd Warns Biden Cover-Up Book Could Doom Pete Buttigieg For 2028

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Chuck Todd warned that Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s forthcoming book, Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, could doom the 2028 presidential campaigns of any Democrat connected to Biden in an episode of The Chuck ToddCast released on Wednesday during which he name-checked former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg.

“In many ways, I think this Biden book is only going to, not just undermine Biden, but I think make it toxic for anybody that worked for Biden. Because then it becomes, ‘Where were you? How did you participate in the cover-up?'” began Todd. “Pete Buttigieg, this may mean something for you. You know, you were a Cabinet secretary. Are you gonna now tell us, ‘Yeah, I didn’t have much interaction with him’? Well, then why didn’t you say something?”

He continued:

I had a Cabinet Secretary tell me that they had no interaction with him and wondered about that. I had that off the record. After Biden quit, I’ve since shared it with people. I’m still not going to share who the Cabinet secretary was because that’s not my-, I’m trying, you know, I believe in keeping your word as a journalist and it was an off the record as far as being told to me, and I think it’s up to that person to decide whether to speak out or not. But I think it’s a question anybody who worked directly for Biden. So Gina Raimondo if she thinks about running for president, Pete Buttigieg, all of these Cabinet secretaries are now going to have to answer for all of this. And I do wonder if it’s gonna make anybody that touches Biden persona non grata, not just anybody directly in the Biden world.

Buttigieg has performed well in 2028 Democratic primary polls. According to Race to the White House’s polling average, Buttigieg finishes second behind only Kamala Harris in surveys of the potential field to date.