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That article is awesome:
'The call was akin to a rah-rah speech,' said John Verdejo, a party member from North Carolina who told the Mail he was surprised when call organizers failed to address the 'elephant in the room', namely Biden's inability to speak clearly.
Other DNC members went even further than Verdejo in their criticisms. Some said that they felt 'gaslighted' by campaign officials on the call who seemed to deny that there was anything to be concerned about. The official Team Biden line appears to be: Nothing to see here.
'On every metric that matters, data shows [the debate] did nothing to change the American people's perception,' Jen O'Malley Dillon, chair of the Biden-Harris 2024 campaign, insisted in a memo released this weekend.
Hardly anyone believes that spin.
'The data!?' tweeted Mike LaRosa, former Press Secretary to First Lady Jill Biden. 'If there is data that counters the impact of what we all saw then WHERE THE HELL IS IT???'
Democrat donor Whitney Tilson similarly didn't his mince words.
'They're p***ing on our legs and telling us it's raining. It's insulting. How stupid do they think we are?'
