‘Can You Just Explain What Happened?’: Campaign Official Pressed On Biden’s Poor Debate Performance

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During Friday’s press gaggle aboard Air Force One, Biden campaign communications director Michael Tyler was asked about President Biden’s performance at the first presidential debate.

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00:00Can you explain the president's performance last night?

00:06I know you're focused on Trump and what he said, but the president himself, by all, he

00:12was unable to answer some questions, meandered, was clearly very different last night than

00:17he was this morning.

00:19Can you just explain what happened and why he performed like that?

00:23Yeah, I think the president said it himself today.

00:26He didn't have the best night on the debate stage, but we'd rather have one bad night

00:29than a candidate with a bad vision for where he wants to take the country.

00:32And again, I think that's what the American people saw in Donald Trump last night.

00:35Certainly what they're going to see with him as he returns to a MAGA rally in Virginia

00:38today, they're going to see exactly why they fired him in the first place as he continues

00:44to be more and more in the limelight moving forward.

00:46Do you firmly reject any calls for the president to consider stepping aside or not running

00:51again?

00:52Are there any conversations about that?

00:53There are no conversations about that whatsoever.

00:56The Democratic voters elected, nominated Joe Biden.

00:59Joe Biden's the nominee.

01:00Joe Biden.

01:01And a couple of things I would point to about this, too.

01:03If you look at the actual, what we actually saw since the debate last night, we have seen,

01:09again, the president go to North Carolina, touchdown, had thousands of supporters in

01:15the state of North Carolina rally around him.

01:17But we also raised $14 million yesterday.

01:19In fact, the 11 o'clock hour was our most successful grassroots fundraising hour of

01:25the entirety of the campaign.

01:27That is Democratic voters tuning in, telling Joe Biden that they've got his back for the

01:31fight ahead because they understand that he's fighting for them.

01:33And just a quick one.

01:34Does the president commit to appearing at the debate in September?

01:37Absolutely.

01:38That's what we laid out when we challenged Donald Trump to two debates.

01:41Joe Biden will be there on September 10th.

01:42We'll see what Donald Trump does.

‘Can You Just Explain What Happened?’: Campaign Official Pressed On Biden’s Poor Debate Performance

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