‘We Want To Get To The Other Side’: Biden Admin. Attempts To Turn The Page On Debate Performance

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During a White House press briefing on Tuesday, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about both support and hesitation coming from Democrats regarding President Biden following the debate.

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00:00Go ahead, Mary.

00:00To follow on that, the president has made clear

00:02he's done talking about the debate.

00:04It is time to move on.

00:05But some of his allies have made clear

00:07they're very much still in this wait-and-see mode.

00:09I mean, Senator Patty Murray saying

00:10he must do more to demonstrate he can campaign strong enough

00:13to beat Trump.

00:14Senator Durbin saying he's concerned

00:16whether this is just a one-off or a larger issue.

00:18So I guess, how worried is the president

00:20that despite his best efforts, he's

00:22not going to be able to close the book on these concerns?

00:25And Mary, I appreciate the question, but as you know,

00:27there are hundreds of members in Congress,

00:29hundreds, and I laid out a list of folks who have supported him.

00:33We've heard from Senator Coons.

00:35We've heard from Senator Fetterman.

00:36There's support there as well for him.

00:39And so we just want to make sure that we put that out there

00:42as well.

00:42We're also party united behind him, right?

00:44Absolutely.

00:44And look, Representative Gregory Meeks

00:47said coming out of the Congressional Democrats meeting

00:50said that they're united.

00:52And you just saw the Dem caucus leadership

00:55take questions from some of your colleagues

00:57over at the Capitol.

00:59So that is important as well to note.

01:02But look, he had a bad night.

01:04We've talked about it.

01:06He understands people's concerns.

01:08We have been out there, as we have been in previous months,

01:12but out there, obviously, in the past 10 days,

01:14more than 10 days now, since the debate.

01:17And you see from his engagement with everyday people

01:21on the ground, you see him with congressional members

01:25who are showing their support, speaking

01:26on behalf of this president while we're

01:28on the ground in that respective state or commonwealth,

01:32being where we were in Pennsylvania on Sunday.

01:35And so we're just going to continue that.

01:37But look, what we can say, what I can say is, look,

01:40we respect people's opinion.

01:42You just mentioned two senators that we

01:44were very proud working with over the past 3 and 1

01:471⁄2 years to get historic legislation done.

01:51And that's what we want to focus on.

01:52You're right, we do want to turn the page.

01:54You heard me say this last week.

01:55We want to get to the other side of this.

01:57We want to continue doing the work.

01:59And that's what the president's going to do.

02:01And just to be clear, does he have plans

02:03to talk with leadership again soon?

02:04I don't have any calls.

02:06We don't have calls to read out or to preview.

02:09He is going to continue to engage.

02:11I just don't have anything right now to share at this moment.

02:14He talked to CBC, again, the Congressional Black Caucus

02:18members yesterday.

02:19They had a very, very good call.

02:21And so he's going to continue to engage.

02:24OK.

02:25That's great.

‘We Want To Get To The Other Side’: Biden Admin. Attempts To Turn The Page On Debate Performance

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