The Biden family is pointing at the debate prep team for the disaster on Thursday night. From Politico:
Members of Joe Biden's family privately trashed his top campaign advisers at Camp David this weekend, blaming them for the president's flop in Thursday's debate and urging Biden to fire or demote people in his political high command.
There is no immediate expectation that Biden will follow through on that advice, according to three people briefed on the family conversations but not directly involved. The three people were granted anonymity to discuss the matter.
Among the family's complaints about the debate practice: that Biden was not prepared to pivot more to go on the attack; that he was bogged down too much on defending his record rather than outlining a vision for a second term; and that he was over-worked and not well-rested.
The blame was cast widely on staffers, including: Anita Dunn, the senior adviser who frequently has the president's ear; her husband, Bob Bauer, the president's attorney who played Trump in rehearsals at Camp David; and Ron Klain, the former chief of staff who ran point on the debate prep and previous cycles' sessions.
Interesting.
I think Tom Nichols at The Atlantic pointed out that it is the president himself who accept responsibility for his performance. The fact that he couldn't verbally spar with a functionally illiterate felon is more of an indication of Biden's decline in the past four years. He didn't have problems doing that in 2020.
He's the f{#%ing president for gods sakes. doesn't he know what his accomplishments have been? Does Jill have to put him down for a nap? Does he need to be wrapped in cotton wool?
The encouraging thing is that everyone at camp David is well aware that the president put his re-election in jeopardy and we all saw it live. We can't UNsee it.
This is no joke.
It's reality.
They must be getting a lot of negative feedback and stern words from party bigwigs. Good, good.
Once everyone stops blaming everyone they can go to radical acceptance and then we can do some problem solving.
Better hurry. I give it a week tops.
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