The Biden marketing campaign issued a memo to reporters on Saturday in search of to work the refs after Joe Biden’s disastrous debate with President Trump Thursday night time that noticed Biden trying dazed and struggling to talk coherently at instances.
Whereas presidential debates are historically held within the fall within the weeks earlier than the November election, this debate was scheduled for late June at Biden’s request in an effort to alter the dynamics of a marketing campaign that noticed him tied or shedding to Trump (principally shedding) in nationwide and key swing state polls. In 2020 polls, Trump by no means led Biden in polls.
As a substitute of bettering his standing in opposition to Trump with the early debate, Biden is hemorrhaging assist with requires him to drop out of the race coming from liberal politicos and newspapers together with the New York Instances and Atlanta Journal-Structure.
In response, the Biden marketing campaign despatched out a memo Saturday that stated of the controversy “On each metric that issues, information exhibits it did nothing to alter the American folks’s notion.”
The denial of actuality was so sturdy a reporter for Politico, Rachel Bade, reacted with, “Are you severe?” to the memo stating, “If we do see modifications in polling within the coming weeks, it won’t be the primary time that overblown media narratives have pushed momentary dips within the polls.”
New memo from the Biden Marketing campaign exhibits simply how in whole denial they’re:
“If we do see modifications in polling within the coming weeks, it won’t be the primary time that overblown media narratives have pushed momentary dips within the polls.”
Are you severe?
— Rachael Bade (@rachaelmbade) June 29, 2024
The memo by marketing campaign co-chair Jen O’Malley Dillion pointed to sturdy submit debate fundraising of $27 million, polls that confirmed the race basically unchanged and a glance again on the 2012 Obama marketing campaign wherein Obama was in a position to bounce again after shedding the primary debate with Republican Mitt Romney. The memo additionally claimed the marketing campaign had a rise in volunteers and job candidates submit debate.
The memo:
Supply: NewsNation’s Connell McShane by way of X Twitter:
This Biden marketing campaign memo says the controversy “didn’t change the horse race” and Biden “gained on substance.” Even when each are true, can you continue to work to elect a candidate if you realize he can’t bodily do the job? That’s the true query. pic.twitter.com/5GXhjWNsIQ
— Connell McShane (@connellmcshane) June 29, 2024
