NEW YORK — As clips of “Veep” began circulating Sunday afternoon in the wake of President Biden’s exit from the 2024 race and Vice President Harris’s ascendance in his place , the group chat of another political show beloved among Washington’s goverati was on fire. “Our ‘West Wing’ thread lit up,” says Richard Schiff, who spent seven years playing White House communications director Toby Ziegler on the venerated network TV show — and actively campaigned for President Biden during his unsuccessful 2008 run for the White House. He’s been a Biden supporter and friendly with the family ever since.
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