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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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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The man had been prepped, rested, and "fortified" for a week. What we watched was Biden at his BEST.
21 posted on 06/30/2024 1:45:48 PM PDT by ALASKA (There has to be a line we do not cross.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Dear White House: Please lie to us some more.


22 posted on 06/30/2024 1:52:28 PM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Such inveterate f’n liars they are. This disgraceful sick politician had seven days and sixteen advisors at Camp David at taxpayers’ expense to “prep” for a 90-minute debate. DID EVERYONE FORGET WHAT HE WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN DOING THAT ENTIRE TIME????? And then he blew the whole damned thing. How soon everyone forgets inconvenient FACTS. What the country saw Thursday night was in no way, shape, or form, anything remotely like a “blip”.


23 posted on 06/30/2024 1:55:54 PM PDT by 4Runner
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To: frank ballenger

The Hindenburg had a bad night.

They just picked up the five thousand pieces and kept going....

Riding with Biden.

Lol.


24 posted on 06/30/2024 1:56:03 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: frank ballenger

The Hindenburg had a bad night.

They just picked up the five thousand pieces and kept going....

Riding with Biden.

Lol.


25 posted on 06/30/2024 1:56:04 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: apillar

“I think he is pretty safe”...

until he gets on a WH helicopter...

Lol.

In DC the good stuff is very secret—and sometimes the secret is kept for decades.


26 posted on 06/30/2024 1:58:15 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: wildcard_redneck

For 5 years they believed the lie with the obvious, a stammering fool in front of them.

Now they’ll believe the next lie.


27 posted on 06/30/2024 1:59:59 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So they’re implicitly admitting the “senior moment” spin first put out there, didn’t work...?


28 posted on 06/30/2024 2:02:29 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ifinnegan

Oh yeah. It is part of a grand strategy. Underperform expectations and come back in September and clean up big time in the second debate. pResident Biden is pure genius!


29 posted on 06/30/2024 2:05:54 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: hanamizu

I got a few Democrat aquantinces who are adamant that he has to go after the performance. I’m like why? He was senile after getting office from a stolen election. Biden doesn’t run the country and it doesn’t matter if the puppet drools.


30 posted on 06/30/2024 2:06:32 PM PDT by TBall
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To: TBall
Biden doesn’t run the country and it doesn’t matter if the puppet drools.

Exactly.

31 posted on 06/30/2024 2:09:39 PM PDT by 4Runner
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I am reminded of Monty Python and the Holy Grail where the character says, “It is only the flesh wound”.


32 posted on 06/30/2024 2:14:33 PM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: frank ballenger

Y’all are getting so worked up, and the President just had a cold!


33 posted on 06/30/2024 2:26:40 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( Biden is an evil marionette. Who is pulling his strings?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Do they think it won’t happen again?


34 posted on 06/30/2024 2:31:21 PM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This actually the best news the Trump campaign could get.


35 posted on 06/30/2024 2:34:17 PM PDT by Kozak (Слава Україні Герояам Слава. RuZZia is a terrorist state.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Great golfer, too.

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With sound..

https://youtu.be/KoVD_H4ggx0?si=LnBt6xtG3ttNVE6u

36 posted on 06/30/2024 2:44:03 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: ansel12

Very perceptive post, ansel12


37 posted on 06/30/2024 3:12:26 PM PDT by Walrus (I do not consent.)
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To: ansel12
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.

This needs its own editorial. You permitting, I would like to start with this and add in all the other 'conspiracy theories' that proved to be fact, and wrap it all together.

38 posted on 06/30/2024 3:14:52 PM PDT by Lazamataz (joesbucks is back. Let's remedy that! 😁)
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To: Lazamataz

Great.


39 posted on 06/30/2024 3:16:43 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: ifinnegan
Maybe they know Merchan is going to throw Trump into Rikers.. That would be a big story, would take it all off Biden for a little while.
40 posted on 06/30/2024 4:51:14 PM PDT by cdnerds (Vapingunderground)
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