A new book published that Anita Dunn made the comment in private to “an associate,” according to the Guardian, which got a copy, at a time when the United States was fighting with mounting death tolls, a broken economy, and a health system close to breaking.
The details are included in Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes. It is the first significant book on the 2020 election and is expected to be published on March 2.
It illustrates how Dunn stated, “COVID is the best thing that ever happened to him,” in remarks, the authors suggested, “campaign officials believed but would never say in public.”
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That private thinking reveals what many political analysts stated at the time, that the widespread pandemic threatened then-President Donald Trump’s firm economic accomplishments and standing in national and battleground state opinion polls.
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Though the remarks could be seized on by Biden’s critics that his campaign used the suffering of the public in the opportunistic pursuit of control.
Dunn served as interim communications director at the White House under President Barack Obama in 2009 before returning to the private sector. In 2020, she again took on the position of communications director for the Biden campaign before being elected co-chairwoman of the Biden-Harris transition team.
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Last month, she entered the White House as a senior adviser.
A post-mortem examination by Trump’s chief pollster decided that the former president’s approach to the coronavirus crisis was a significant factor in his loss. It discovered that the handling of the pandemic was the top issue for voters and that in states that “flipped,” Biden carried those voters by a margin of nearly 3-1.
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This week, President Biden commemorated the 500,000th US Covid death with a solemn ceremony and a call to all Americans asking to “remember those we lost and those we left behind”.
Allen and Parnes, of NBC News and the Hill, further collaborated on Shattered, a similarly speedy history of Hillary Clinton’s White House run in 2016. In their latest book, they record Biden’s opinion of his predecessor in her loss for Trump – he considered her as a “terrible candidate” – and the views of Barack Obama, whom Biden served as vice-president from 2009 to 2017, as the 2020 campaign unfolded.
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Obama first “seemed to be enamored with a former Texas congressman, Beto O’Rourke”, Allen and Parnes write, then later explained to Biden’s aides he feared his friend, aged 77 when the primary started, would only succeed in humiliating himself and tarnishing a distinguished Washington career.
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