After Joe Biden unexpectedly answered a reporter's call and gave unscripted comments about the Trump administration and the 2024 election, his aides scrambled to shut down contact—blocking the reporter and disconnecting Biden's number days later, according to a new book. Tyler Pager, who coauthored 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America with fellow journalists Josh Dawsey and Isaac Arnsdorf, said in the book that he reached Biden by phone twice in March, Axios