White House aides fill group chats with distraught messages about the debate: 'Abysmal'

Daily Mail ^ | 6/28/24 | Geoff Earle

[Libloather]

There was chaos inside the White House on Friday as Democrat party operatives, long-time aides, and party donors came to terms with their candidate and boss spectacularly flopping in his disastrous debate with Donald Trump.

A sense of foreboding set in among some Biden acolytes as they absorbed his car crash performance that has veterans of the Obama and Bill Clinton campaigns openly mulling whether he should be replaced.

‘Right now the people are all talking to each other,’ Bill Clinton guru James Carville told DailyMail.com. ‘Trust me it’s way more than the consultant class. And particularly the donor class,’ he said.

The mood inside the White House is ‘not good,’ CNN reported, as shell-shocked aides traded glum observations on group chats. Aides called the performance ‘abysmal’ and ‘ugly.’

Many were so deflated they opted to work from home. 'We’re just commiserating and we didn’t’ want to do that at a desk,’ said one.

President Biden and some of his top surrogates didn’t have that luxury, with the president holding a rally with supporters in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Some aides were so disconcerted by the president's performance in the debate, including several mumbled responses, that they spent last night updating their LinkedIn profiles 'just in case,' Politico reported.

There was an organized effort to circle the wagons, with Pennsylvania’s telegenic Governor Josh Shapiro taking to the airwaves hours after Biden’s debate flop to tell members of his party to ‘stop worrying.’

Shapiro, 51, appeared after key political operatives hit the panic button.

Influential New York Times columnist Tom Friedman called Biden’s performance ‘heartbreaking’ and said he had ‘no business running for reelection.’

[irishjuggler]

“I just hope and pray that Joe and Jill will remain as selfish and strong as Ruth Bader Ginsberg did. “

I have ZERO doubt that, if it’s up to her, Doctor Jill will keep her patient in the race. No worries whatsoever from me that she’ll have second thoughts. She’s all in and then some. As someone pointed out to me on another thread, though, we can’t discount the possibility of the deep state making her a Corleone-style offer that she can’t refuse.

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

All boiled down to:

Leave Jill

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

"This all sounds like is a conceived plan to create momentum to have him removed from the ticket."

there. fixed it.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Bot farms, probably.

[DeplorablePaul]

I agree. The split screen was Trump’s friend. His expressions were priceless. I favorite exchange was when Trump said Biden could go to jail. Joe actually looked scared.