Donna Brazile, former head of Democratic National Committee, says Clinton’s pneumonia and campaign’s ‘odor of failure’ made her ponder drastic optionThe former head of the Democratic National Committee says she considered initiating effort to replace Hillary Clinton as the party’s presidential nominee with then vice-president Joe Biden. Brazile writes that she considered initiating Clinton’s removal after she collapsed while leaving a 9/11 memorial service in New York City. But Brazile says the larger issue was that her campaign was “anemic” and had taken on “the odor of failure”. After considering a dozen combinations to replace Clinton and her running mate, Tim Kaine from Virginia, Brazile writes that she settled on Biden and Cory Booker of New Jersey as those with the best chance of defeating Trump. He also said the debate schedule would be decided in advance rather than negotiated after all candidates had entered the race.

Source: The Guardian November 05, 2017 05:03 UTC