Whitmer is latest Democrat to dodge on party’s Biden cover-up

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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) side-stepped answering questions on former President Joe Biden’s mental decline, suggesting that she did not “frequently” see the president ahead of the 2024 election.

The Biden administration’s cover-up of concerns over the former president’s mental acuity has gained newfound attention ahead of the release of a new book, Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson. Biden chose to drop his reelection bid less than a month after his first debate with then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, which drew widespread attention to his mental decline at the time.

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