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ARTICLE VIEW:
Former Biden aide pushes back on concerns about former president’s
health in testimony to House panel
By Annie Grayer, CNN
Updated:
6:28 PM EDT, Fri September 5, 2025
Source: CNN
One of ’s former top aides pushed back Friday on concerns about the
former president’s health in a closed-door interview with the House
Oversight Committee, a person familiar with the matter told CNN.
Andrew Bates, who had served as deputy assistant to the president and
senior deputy press secretary, told the Republican-led panel that he
believed Biden could have won reelection, but ultimately agreed with
the former president’s decision to drop out of the race after
assessing polling data and the political damage from Biden’s
disastrous debate performance, the source said.
Bates’ testimony to the committee comes as the panel has interviewed
a from the Biden White House in recent months as part of its
investigation into the former president’s cognitive decline and
possible efforts to conceal it from the public.
Another source told CNN that Bates said after he had time to process
the president’s decision and a turn in public polling during the
final week of his candidacy, he agreed Biden had made the right
decision to withdraw.
Bates stated that he interacted with Biden in person a little over once
a month and engaged with more than 20 people to discuss Biden’s
functioning in order to respond to press questions about the former
president’s health, that source added.
In his opening statement obtained by CNN, Bates defended Biden, while
criticizing Republicans for not investigating potential conflicts of
interest in the Trump administration.
“In the White House, it was universally understood that Joe Biden was
in charge. That is completely consistent with my personal experience
with the president,” Bates said.
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