Chuck Todd says hell never be able to shake the belief that former President Joe Bidens team purposefully set him up to fail against Donald Trump during last summers campaign-altering presidential debate.During the latest episode of "The Chuck Toddcast," the ex-NBC anchor told The Atlantic's Mark Leibovich that hes sure that Bidens inner circle scheduled the first presidential debate last year in June so that the former president would look bad and the party would ditch him in time to run his replacement."Look, I will go to my grave believing that the debate was intentional for that," the host said.NEW BOOK REVEALS BIDEN'S INNER CIRCLE WORRIED ABOUT HIS AGE YEARS BEFORE BOTCHED DEBATE PERFORMANCEBidens disastrous performance in last summers presidential debate is widely seen as the death knell for the former presidents re-election campaign. Less than a month after the spectacle, where Biden looked weak and cognitively challenged, he announced his withdrawal from the campaign and endorsed then-Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him as the nominee.Bidens cognitive decline has been under more scrutiny in recent months as CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompsons newly published book, "Original Sin," alleged that members of Bidens White House engaged in a cover-up of the presidents condition.In the clip flagged by The Daily Caller, Leibovich prompted Todds declaration by bringing up a previous conversation they had about some members of Bidens inner circle using the debate as an opportunity to punch through the cover-up and show the world that Biden was unfit for office.CHUCK TODD BLAMES SCHUMER, DEMOCRATS' SILENCE ON BIDEN DECLINE FOR PARTY'S CREDIBILITY COLLAPSEThe journalist mentioned "the idea that there were actually people within the White House, within the Biden campaign who thought it would be a good thing to create some kind of daylight for the world to see what they were dealing with on a day-to-day basis."Todd followed up by saying that no matter what Bidens former senior adviser Anita Dunn and campaign co-chair Jen OMalley Dillon say, he thinks they were trying to expose his frailties."Anita Dunn and Jen OMalley Dillon will deny it till theyre blue in the face, and if I were in their shoes and I did it, Id deny it until I was blue in my face, okay?" Todd said."Of course, youd deny that," Leibovich agreed.CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURETodd added, "Its like whoever the hell helped Reagan delay the hostage release, okay? Its never going to be admitted. Its too convenient," referring to the January 1981 release of American hostages held by Iran, after Jimmy Carter had already lost his re-election effort to Reagan.Going back to the alleged plot to expose Biden, Todd continued, "There was no other reason. This idea, Well, we needed to shake up the race. In late June? Who shakes up a race in late June?""They knew when the nomination was going to be and they knew they needed to deal with this with an opportunity to make a change if it was necessary," Todd added. "I will always believe this."Reps for the former president did not immediately reply to Fox News Digital's request for comment.