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Nothing to See Here? White House Portrays Biden’s Debate Performance as a Blip
The New York Times ^ | June 30, 2024, 2:26 p.m. ET | Michael D. Shear

Posted on 06/30/2024 1:09:52 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Seventy-two hours after the debate in Atlanta last week, President Biden and those closest to him have settled on the same strategy police officers use to shoo bystanders away from a car crash: “Nothing to see here.”

According to the talking points being repeated by the president’s aides and surrogates, the debate was a 90-minute blip in a long campaign. Mr. Biden didn’t have “a great night,” as he told donors Saturday, but fund-raising is going strong and he has already bounced back.

Aides have been pushing a similar message for more than a year, as polls have shown that voters are worried about the president’s age. They have brushed off such concerns, calling them little more than a creation of the media and the MAGA movement supporting the campaign of former President Donald J. Trump.

Jen O’Malley Dillon, the president’s top campaign strategist, said on Saturday that any drop in the polls would be the result of “overblown media narratives.” Senator John Fetterman, Democrat of Pennsylvania, dismissed anxiety about the president’s performance, saying on “Fox News Sunday” that “it’s like one debate.”

And yet, like the bystanders at the car crash, voters do not need to be told what happened during the face-off with Mr. Trump. They saw it with their own eyes.

“Telling people they didn’t see what they saw is not the way to respond to this,” Ben Rhodes, who was a top foreign policy adviser to President Barack Obama, wrote on social media an hour after the debate ended on Thursday.


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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; incompetentbiden; prezdebate; senilejoe
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1 posted on 06/30/2024 1:09:52 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Is this really the New York Slimes headline?

Pigs flying.


2 posted on 06/30/2024 1:10:46 PM PDT by ifinnegan (MDemocrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The old Jedi Mind Trick strategy. Works everytime.


3 posted on 06/30/2024 1:11:15 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Even the NYT has given up the ghost. I wonder how many of their useful idiot readers are enraged about being lied to for 5 years?


4 posted on 06/30/2024 1:12:19 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“It’s just a flesh wound”


5 posted on 06/30/2024 1:13:59 PM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Maybe it was the altitude.


6 posted on 06/30/2024 1:15:23 PM PDT by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t counb)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

he’s fine....

with a teleprompter....

sort of

lets go brandon!


7 posted on 06/30/2024 1:15:41 PM PDT by joshua c
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Nothing to See Here!

That’s the same thing Democrats say when one of their own is caught committing a felony, like possessing an illegal gun.


8 posted on 06/30/2024 1:16:08 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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We need them to think there’s nothing to see.


9 posted on 06/30/2024 1:19:08 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Debate was only one bad night....

The climax of the Titanic’s first voyage was one bad night.


10 posted on 06/30/2024 1:20:28 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Just a blip”. That’s what the radar operators said about the Japanese planes heading to Pearl Harbor.


11 posted on 06/30/2024 1:20:35 PM PDT by XRdsRev (Justice for Bernell Trammell, black Trump supporter, executed in the street in broad daylight 2020.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Joe was just having a bad night.

He’ll do fine. Go Biden!


12 posted on 06/30/2024 1:21:38 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The White House??

I did not know houses could speak.

They hide behind the White House insitution because they could not say the “Biden Administration” since everyone knows the ogres in the administration are liars.


13 posted on 06/30/2024 1:22:08 PM PDT by odawg
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I agree, Pinocchio is as sharp as a butter knife (wink wink)!


14 posted on 06/30/2024 1:24:43 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Whatever they call it, people now know that the stories and the online videos are real and they will be receptive to every related video now, this is national exposure that can’t be put away and people have learned that a massive media and presidential deception has been taking place.

A lot of people are now wondering what shadow government has been handling most of the presidential duties and decisions and why has the media and the Dem party been all working together to maintain a defensive wall around the democrat White House and working so hard to squelch all the videos of this stuff.

A lot of doubts and deep suspicions have been created among fence sitters.


15 posted on 06/30/2024 1:25:25 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: frank ballenger
Debate was only one bad night....

Well, all right then. Let's have another one.

Best 2 of 3?

Best 3 of 5?

Best 5 of 7?

16 posted on 06/30/2024 1:25:30 PM PDT by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That wasn’t a blip. That was raw exposure of who he is. Think of Professor Harold Hill in “The Music Man”. Not merely a bad teacher, but exposed as no teacher at all.


17 posted on 06/30/2024 1:26:00 PM PDT by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Apparently, there is a democrat civil war going on behind the scenes. Jill Biden is leading the pro-Biden troops (of which even after the debate disaster there are still surprisingly many). She saying Biden is not dropping out under ANY circumstance, has already won the nomination and there is nothing else to discuss, going as far as threating political retribution and withdrawal of party support of any elected democrat who calls for Biden being replaced.

These threats have largely shut up any calls for Biden to go among the elected party establishment.

The "replace Biden" crowd seems to be mostly outside the beltway democrats, the media, pundits, academics, social media influencers etc. The ones that don't live in the DC bubble, have their finger on the pulse of the electorate, and realize what a disaster keeping Biden in there is going to be.

So far, the powers that be in the democrat party, the ones that (might) be able to force Biden to step aside, the Obamas, Clintons, popular democrat governors etc. Seem to be supporting Biden (some pretty tepidly). But unless this group publicly pulls out the long knives against him, I think he is pretty safe, because although the "replace Biden" media crowd can make a lot of noise, they really have little power to do anything.

18 posted on 06/30/2024 1:27:57 PM PDT by apillar
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

"That's not the debate you're looking for."


19 posted on 06/30/2024 1:41:06 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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20 posted on 06/30/2024 1:41:12 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
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