EXCLUSIVE: “Why isn’t Joe Biden on 60 Minutes tonight? Why wasn’t he on Meet the Press this morning?”
29.06.2024 - 02:13 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Joe Biden’s reelection campaign has a problem with some of its top donors after last night’s debate fiasco, and they may have just made it worse.
To mollify the agitation and quell a “cooling,” as one insider put it, among some of the most generous entertainment industry donors on both coasts, the president’s reelection campaign this evening reached out with what it likely hoped was words of solace – “hoped” being the operative term
“I am sure many of you tuned into the debate last night,” said Hailey Sasse, the Biden Victory Funds Southern California Finance Director in an email sent out Friday. “Our team has received feedback from folks today, and I wanted to share a couple of highlights and resources to help navigate conversations you might be having.,” it added with words from another dimension.
Hollywood has some of the incumbent most loyal and deep pocketed supporters, but the combination of the disastrous performance by Biden against Donald Trump on CNN on Thursday and the tone deaf correspondence by the campaign has the C-suite class deeply shaken.
“The choice in this election is as simple as this: Donald Trump will destroy our democracy, Joe Biden will defend it,” said campaign staffer Sasse, went on to say, almost acting like the debate free fall never happened and the likes of the New York Times Editorial Board isn’t pleading with the president to drop out for the good of the nation.
“This is the same race that it was before the debate, and post-debate polling shows that voters’ opinions were not changed in any significant way,” the campaign email added. “This race is going to be decided in individual battleground states in November 2024, just as it was in April 2023.”
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EXCLUSIVE: “Why isn’t Joe Biden on 60 Minutes tonight? Why wasn’t he on Meet the Press this morning?”
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