One of Joe Biden ’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 number of top aides from the Biden White House in recent months as part of its investigation into the former president’s cognitive de

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