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He went from being a guy who, everybody who knew him described as being one of the genuinely nicest, most tethered to reality people that they had ever met in American politics, to being an egomaniacal kind of caricature of a deluded politician.

And you get to a place in this campaign where the delusion got to be so great—and it‘s one of the things we reported in the book that most astonished Mark Halperin and I when we wrote the book, was that in the Spring of 2008, even after he was out of the race, even after his child with Rielle Hunter was in the world, he still believed he could be on the ticket with Barack Obama or be Barack Obama‘s attorney general.

I‘ll tell you, if that delusion continues to keep him gripped, he might end up in jail if he pursues this case, if he‘s that deluded still.

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John Heilemann of New York magazine and author of ‘Game Change’ on John Edwards - Watch

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