Biden's handlers scrambled to change his personal number after journalist reached him on his cell: Book

Biden reportedly picked up and said he would be available to speak with Pager the next day. He answered a few questions the following morning before he had to cut the conversation short to catch a train.

"No, not now. I don't spend a lot of time on regrets," he told Pager before hanging up to get on the train.

After the interview, the reporter soon discovered his own number had been blocked by Biden's team. Two days later, Biden's number had been disconnected.

"This is why they lost," Swisher said in response to Pager's story.

"2024" follows Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's book, "Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again," released in May; "Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House," by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes; and "Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History" by Chris Whipple, both released in April.

A representative for Biden declined to comment.

A former Biden speechwriter balked at Pager in a post on X, writing, "Is the implication here supposed to be that it's normal and important for any journalist to have the personal cell phone number of the president - and if you can't call POTUS directly whenever you'd like, it's a sign of insularity? Because that strikes me as... insane."