Biden biographer connected erstwhile president's bequest
Washington — Karine Jean-Pierre, who was the White House property caput nether erstwhile President Joe Biden, is nary longer a Democrat, according to her publisher's summary of her upcoming book, "Independent."
A blurb by the publisher, the Hachette Book Group, says Jean-Pierre "didn't travel to her determination to beryllium an Independent lightly," and goes connected to accidental that she "defines what it means to beryllium portion of the increasing percent of our fractured electorate that is Independent, wherefore it tin beryllium worthwhile to carve a governmental abstraction much loyal to idiosyncratic beliefs than a enactment affiliation and what questions you request to inquire yourself to find wherever you acceptable politically."
Karine Jean-Pierre speaks during a speech astatine 92NY connected June 3, 2025, successful New York City.
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The summary indicates that Jean-Pierre, a longtime Democrat who besides worked for erstwhile President Barack Obama's medication and his statesmanlike campaign, grew disillusioned with the enactment implicit its efforts to unit Biden to driblet his reelection bid past year. Biden ended up leaving the race for the White House weeks earlier the Democratic National Convention, and Vice President Kamala Harris went connected to go the party's statesmanlike nominee. She lost to President Trump successful November.
In summation to serving 2 Democratic presidents, Jean-Pierre was main of unit to Harris during the 2020 campaign.
"She takes america done the 3 weeks that led to Biden's abandoning his bid for a 2nd word and the betrayal by the Democratic Party that led to his decision," the Hachette summary says. In her book, Jean-Pierre "shares wherefore Americans indispensable measurement beyond enactment lines to clasp beingness arsenic Independents."
The publication volition beryllium disposable successful October, according to the publisher.
"Until January 20, I was liable for speaking connected behalf of the president of the United States. At noon connected that day, I became a backstage national who, similar each Americans and galore of our allies astir the world, had to contend with what was to travel adjacent for our country," Jean-Pierre said successful a connection from Legacy Lit, which is portion of Hachette. "I determined that the information we look arsenic a state requires freeing ourselves of boxes. We request to beryllium consenting to workout the quality to deliberation creatively and program strategically. We request to beryllium clear-eyed and questioning, alternatively than blindly loyal and obedient arsenic we whitethorn person been successful the past. And freeing ourselves of boxes is genuinely astatine the bosom and psyche of my caller book, Independent."
Jean-Pierre was Biden's 2nd White House property secretary, taking implicit the presumption from Jen Psaki successful 2022. She served arsenic main lawman property caput earlier being elevated to the role of property caput pursuing Psaki's departure from the White House.
Jean-Pierre was the archetypal Black pistillate and archetypal openly cheery idiosyncratic to service arsenic White House property secretary.
Ellen Uchimiya is enforcement exertion of authorities for CBSNews.com. She was antecedently the Washington bureau main for Bloomberg Television and formerly worked arsenic a shaper astatine Fox News.
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