How Is The Biden Campaign Addressing Concerns From Dems Following Debate?: Top Official Pressed

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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 and quelling concerns from Democrats.

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00:00I think what you saw last night after the debate was the president leave the debate stage,

00:05go rally supporters, grassroots supporters in Atlanta, went and got some food at Waffle House,

00:09excuse me, hopped on the plane here to Raleigh, touched down in Raleigh at nearly 2 a.m. to

00:14meet a bunch of supporters on the tarmac, shook every single hand, then got back up this morning,

00:20gave the speech that we all just saw, made a forceful demonstration of what the choice and

00:25what the stakes are in this election, and he's going to continue to do that day in and day out

00:29for the remainder of this campaign. So we're excited coming off of today. He understands that

00:33sometimes you get knocked down, but you get back up and you keep fighting, and that's exactly why

00:36the American people elected him in the first place, and it's why they're going to re-elect

00:40him again in November. So with that, I'll take a few questions. Yeah, Darren, given the president's

00:43appearance in Raleigh, was it a mistake to insist on no audience for the debate? And secondly,

00:49what kind of outreach is the campaign doing to Democrats and others who are concerned about

00:54winning in November based on his performance last night? Yeah, so I think one of the things

00:59that the American people got to see last night on the debate stage was Donald Trump in prime time

01:04as well. They got to see the Donald Trump that has been speaking at the MAGA rallies since he

01:08launched his campaign, where he has every single day been talking about ruling as a dictator on

01:13day one, where he's been calling for a bloodbath, where he's been celebrating January 6th, promising

01:18to pardon the insurrectionists of January 6th. The vast majority of the American people had not

01:22heard that at all until last night, and so last night was one of the first times that the American

01:28people are going to begin to see the extremism that Donald Trump represents and just how harmful

01:33a second Trump term would be moving forward. So I think the president's honest about his own

01:37performance, but as far as what last night's debate actually provided for the American people,

01:44it crystallized the threat and begins to crystallize the threat that Donald Trump poses.

01:48So that's what we're going to continue to focus on as we head into the summer months,

01:52as more and more people begin to tune into this election and Donald Trump, who's no longer on the

01:57sidelines of American politics, returns to the limelight. And not having an audience?

02:02No, listen, again, I think it forced Donald Trump, what you saw Donald Trump do throughout the course

02:07of that debate, as it went on, was obviously he spent the entire night lying. But as the debate

02:12went on, in prime time, without an audience for him to feed off of, he became more unhinged,

02:18he started to spew more and more lies, and he reminded the American people of exactly why they

02:22fired him in the first place, when he said that the overturning of Roe was a great thing. Again,

02:28when he refused to commit to accept the results of an election, when he again said that his

02:34corporate giveaways were the right thing to do. That's what the American people have rejected

02:38already. They have not necessarily heard him say that in prime time, but that's what they got to see

02:43last night.

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