Former President Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign team canned the use of pre-recorded campaign videos deemed “unusable,” according to a new book about the now 82-year-old’s cognitive decline, reports Axios.

In the book, “Original Sin,” co-authors Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson report that the campaign packed a friendly audience into a high school gym in Biden’s home state of Delaware last April for a town hall. Footage of it was planned to be used in a TV ad.

“The campaign was trying to make it look like the president was out there taking off-the-cuff questions from voters in public,” the authors wrote. “But the event was closed to reporters, and the campaign had the full list of questions that people would ask.”

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