48 hours to fix a 90-minute mess: Inside Biden camp's post-debate frenzy
Business Standard|July 01, 2024
In the wee hours of Friday morning, not long after President Biden had walked off the stage from a disastrous debate, his campaign chair, Jen O'Malley Dillon, acknowledged ina series of private calls with prominent supporters that the night had gone poorly but urged them not to overreact.
LISA LERER, SHANE GOLDMACHER & KATIE ROGERS
48 hours to fix a 90-minute mess: Inside Biden camp's post-debate frenzy

Later on Friday, top White House aides worked the phones, with Mr. Biden's chief of staff, Jeff Zients, calling the Democratic leader of the Senate, Chuck Schumer, to check in, according to a person familiar with the call. And by the afternoon, the Biden campaign had transformed its weekly all-staff call into a virtual pep talk to dispel any doubts creeping into the campaign offices in Wilmington, Del., and beyond.

"Nothing fundamentally changed about this election last night," said Quentin Fulks, Mr. Biden's deputy campaign manager, according to a recording of the all-staff meeting. "We're going to get punched. We're going to punch back. We're going to get up when we get punched."

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