Joe Biden Original Sin: This anecdote casts the Democrats’ 2024 election loss in a new light.

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There’s one vignette in Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s Original Sin , the thoroughly marketed new book detailing ex-President Joe Biden’s aborted reelection bid amid his physical and mental decline, that’s unlike much of the rest.

It describes a White House event on June 18, 2024, in which the Biden administration softened its immigration policy a touch, just a couple of weeks after a sharp crackdown on asylum claims. Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet was at the event, and in Tapper and Thompson’s paraphrasing, it made him consider “what Biden’s age likely meant when it came to the issue of immigration.”

“He’d never felt as if the White House had a coherent polic