President Joe Biden’s campaign team has been battered in the two “bad f***ing weeks” since the CNN debate disaster but is determined to plow on despite an internal party coup seeking to depose the geriatric leader.
The 81-year-old career politician is in a battle for his political life with Democrat lawmakers and his celebrity friends calling for him to end his reelection campaign with many calling for him to be replaced by his veep Kamala Harris as the nominee.
Biden’s nationally televised faceplant reportedly left demoralized campaign staffers feeling “miserable” and campaign Chair Jen O’Malley Dillon tried to rally the troops in a Thursday call.
“We had two very, very, very hard weeks, very bad weeks. I told you I’d level with you, they’ve been bad f**king weeks,” she told team members.
According to Axios which obtained audio of the “all staff” call, the third since last Wednesday, O’Malley Dillon told the dejected staffers to tune out the “crazy f***ing gossip land world.”
“This two week window has really sucked, and it is hard, there is no doubt about it. And it’s hard for all of us because we are doing the job,” she said, referring to the efforts of a Democrat faction and their allies in the media to force Biden out before he costs the party the White House and control of Congress.
Looking to boost the spirits of the staff, O’Malley Dillon added that Mike Donilon, the president’s top political advisor, has been saying in post-debate meetings that “he’s never seen a presidential candidate have more thrown at him than Joe Biden and do you know what Joe Biden does every day? He gets up and he keeps fighting,” Axios reported.
Even though Biden is adamantly refusing to quit, that hasn’t stopped lawmakers in his party from urging him to hang it up and this week, Hollywood A-lister George Clooney wrote an op-ed in The New York Times calling for the octogenarian to clear the way for younger blood, just weeks after he headlined a swanky fundraiser for the candidate.
“It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe ‘big F-ing deal’ Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate,” Clooney wrote.
O’Malley Dillon acknowledged that there was some “slippage” for Biden in the post-debate polls but assured staff that it wasn’t anything to worry about, “we definitely saw a little bit of slippage, but nothing significant, nothing massive, no bottom falling out,” she said.
“What you are seeing in the public polling in the last couple days is what we are seeing in our polls. What we are seeing is that this is still a margin of error race,” she added as Biden and his supporters look to run out the clock until he’s formally nominated which will quell the Democrat insurrection once he’s been formally locked in.
“Everyone is miserable, and senior advisers are a total black hole,” one anonymous White House official told Axios last week. “Even if you’re trying to focus on work, nothing is going to break through or get any acknowledgment.”
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