Jen O’Malley Dillon, the chairwoman of Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, recently admitted during an all-hands campaign call that the campaign has faced a brutal couple of weeks. “We had two very, very, very hard weeks, very bad weeks. I told you I’d level with you, they’ve been bad weeks.” And this was before the attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life.
This juicy tidbit comes from the far-left Axios, which got hold of a recording of the call. O’Malley Dillon urged her team to ignore the “crazy gossip land world” that’s swirling around. “This two-week window has really sucked, and it is hard, there is no doubt about it,” she admitted. “And it’s hard for all of us because we are doing the job.”
In a bid to boost morale among her team, which is clearly leaking despair to the mainstream media, she said, “If we can get through these two weeks that we’re living through, we can get through anything.” She mentioned that Mike Donilon, Biden’s top political adviser, told her that he has “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 keeps fighting.”
Regarding the polls, she acknowledged “a little bit of slippage, but nothing significant, nothing massive, no bottom falling out,” and that public polling is consistent with their internal data. She noted that the race remains within the margin of error and that the campaign is still optimistic about winning North Carolina.
From my perspective, this is about right and not all that surprising. As I wrote after the debate, “I suspect the debate didn’t hurt Biden as much as those freaking out believe[.]” The Democrat Party and corporate media’s efforts to hide Biden’s mental and physical frailties weren’t fooling anyone. Everyone knows Biden is old and frail. That debate performance didn’t shock anyone who isn’t living in the CNN bubble. But Democrats and the media had deluded themselves into believing their own spin, thinking Biden’s disastrous showing would be a game-changer. Spoiler alert: it was not.
After the NATO press conference, I’m convinced that unless something major happens, Biden will be the nominee. Remember, this is still a tight race, and the Democratic freakout has nothing to do with Biden’s mental state. Their sole focus, which they openly admit, is beating Donald Trump.
If Biden were in a full-blown coma and still beating Trump by five points, we’d be hearing about how he’s “sharp as a tack.”
