Story highlights Brazile considered the move after Clinton fainted in New York City during the campaign

She said Clinton's campaign headquarters felt like "someone had died."

Washington (CNN) Donna Brazile, the former interim Democratic National Committee chair, wrote in her new memoir that she considered pushing for the removal of Hillary Clinton from the 2016 ticket and replacing her with then-Vice President Joe Biden, according to a report published Saturday.

The Washington Post, which obtained an advanced copy of her memoir , reported that Brazile wrote that Clinton's campaign was "anemic" and had taken on "the odor of failure."

The explosive revelations drag Democrats back into the ugly infighting and divisiveness that plagued the party during the 2016 primary. Brazile, despite being a longtime party official with deep ties to Clinton, uses her book to torch Clinton and her campaign by blasting the candidate as someone who couldn't inspire enthusiasm, a key issue Clinton was forced to deal with during her general election fight against Trump.

When Clinton fainted on Sept. 11, 2016, in New York City, Brazile deliberated trying to use her position as interim DNC chair to start the process to remove the former secretary of state and her running mate, Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, and replace them with Biden and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, according to the Post.

But then she decided not to.

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