The Biden campaign released a memo to reporters on Saturday, seeking to work with referees after Joe Biden’s disastrous debate with President Trump on Thursday night, which left Biden appearing dazed and struggling to speak coherently at times. .
While presidential debates are traditionally held in the fall weeks before the November election, the debate, scheduled for late June at Biden’s request, is intended to change the dynamics of the race that has led to his lead in national and key battleground state polls. . Trump has never led Biden in polls in 2020.
Rather than boosting support for Trump through early debates, Biden is losing support through calls from liberal politicians and newspapers such as the New York Times and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution to withdraw from the race.
In response, the Biden campaign released a memo on Saturday saying the debate “on every important metric, the data shows it did not change the minds of the American people.”
This denial of reality was so strong that Politico reporter Rachel Bade reacted: “Are you serious?” The memo noted, “If we do in the next few days It wouldn’t be the first time the polls have changed over the course of the week, and it wouldn’t be the first time an exaggerated media narrative has led to a temporary drop in the polls.”
A new memo from the Biden campaign shows how they deny it outright:
“If we do see a change in the polls in the coming weeks, it wouldn’t be the first time that an exaggerated media narrative has caused a temporary drop in the polls.”
are you serious?
— Rachel Bader (@rachaelmbade) June 29, 2024
The memo from campaign co-chair Jen O’Malley Dillion noted strong post-debate fundraising, with $27 million raised, and polls showing the race was largely unchanged, and recalled the 2012 Obama campaign, in which Obama Was able to make a comeback after losing the first game. The memo also claimed that the number of volunteers and job seekers increased after the debate.
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Source: NewsNation’s Connell McShane via X Twitter:
Biden’s campaign memo said the debate “did not change the horse race” and that Biden “won on substance.” Even if both were true, would you still try to elect a candidate if you knew he couldn’t do the job? This is the real problem. pic.twitter.com/5GXhjWNsIQ
— Connell McShane (@connellmcshane) June 29, 2024
