Backroom efforts to bolster staff from the Biden-Harris campaign chair included a seemingly hypocritical stance on corporate media coverage following an appearance from herself sure to delight the GOP.
Swirling rumors would have the public believe there is a 50-50 chance that President Joe Biden could be bowing out of his bid for a second term before the end of the weekend. In countering that narrative, his campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon reportedly petitioned staff to tune out cable news only hours after an interview for MSNBC.
“Don’t watch cable news all the time,” she was said to have told staff from the Democratic National Committee and the campaign, according to Axios. “That is not the real world. The real world is the voters that are standing with us, the delegates that are with us, and we’re going to weather this because of this organization.”
Additionally, sources speaking with the outlet contended that O’Malley Dillon had said, “When you give me polls, I’m going to give you direct voter contact. The people that the president is hearing from are saying, ‘Stay in this race and keep going and keep fighting, and we need you.'”
“Those voices will never be as loud as the people on TV,” she was credited as saying, “but remember that the people in our country are not watching cable news.”
Earlier Friday, she had appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” where she had asserted to co-host Mika Brzezinski that Biden was “more committed than ever to beat Donald Trump.”
“Absolutely, the president’s in this race,” she began her appearance that included spun up reaction to former President Donald Trump’s nomination acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention.
Notably, her effort included the ongoing endeavor by the left to make the election about defeating Trump rather than a referendum on Biden’s failed policies or questions about his mental acuity as she said, “You’ve heard him say that time and time again, and I think we saw on display last night exactly why, because Donald Trump is not going to offer anything new to the American people. He’s the same person he was in 2020. He’s the same person he was at the debate stage. He is the same person he is that is about himself and not about the American people.”
“Absolutely the president is in this race, you’ve heard him say that time and time again… He is the best person to take on Donald Trump.”
— Biden campaign chair @jomalleydillon says Biden is not exiting the presidential race pic.twitter.com/zElSb3fG4X
— Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) July 19, 2024
O’Malley Dillon’s pitch, which furthered fearmongering on “Project 2025,” a proposed conservative transition project led by The Heritage Foundation that Trump himself did not claim to support, came as polls continued to show a majority of voters in agreement that Biden should step aside.
According to a survey conducted by the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research between July 11-15, 65% of Democrats wanted to see Biden end his campaign, while 70% of voters overall felt the same way as Vice President Kamala Harris earned marginally positive reviews from her own party as to how she might perform as the nation’s chief executive.
It also came as Axios had previously indicated that Biden was an avid viewer of “Morning Joe” and “often calls co-host Joe Scarborough — a former Republican congressman who’s now a harsh critic of Donald Trump — to get Scarborough’s take on issues and sometimes vent about media coverage, according to people familiar with the relationship.”
Meanwhile, one Democratic National Committee official told Axios, “I appreciate the focus on staff efforts, but no one wants or needs to be gaslit about the president.”
Worth noting, the prospect of Biden staying in the race remained positive among many Republican voters who believed the campaign was a suicide mission bound to secure Trump’s return to the White House, possibly by a landslide, and social media users mocked the campaign chair’s attempt to suggest otherwise.
We’ve transitioned to the full on head in the sand portion of the program.
— Kyle Birling (@KJBD11) July 19, 2024
But they LOVED cable news when they helped them push their “cheap fake” narrative to help them LIE to the American people.
— Holly Thornton (@beachmamax2) July 19, 2024
— BenjiCarver (@CarverBenji) July 19, 2024
— CubeBot (@CubeBot01101) July 19, 2024
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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