The top adviser to former President Joe Biden said the Democratic Party “melted” after a poor effect in discussing the President in June 2024. Donald Trump And he insisted that Biden was supposed to remain a party candidate.
Biden’s rough performance and a weak voice on CNN Presidential Discussion He caused a huge fear of his re -elections, and leading leftists invited him to withdraw from the race.
Biden was replaced by Vice President as a democratic candidate Kamala Harris Less than a month later on July 21. She lost to Trump in the 2024 presidential election.
President Joe Biden, Right, and former President Donald Trump, a Republican presidential candidate, participate in the presidential debate of CNN CNN Studios 27 June 2024 in Atlanta. (Andrew Hardik/Getty Images)
“Now, a lot of people have terrible discussions,” said former senior advisor Biden Mike Donilon during his discussion at Harvard University. “Many people have terrible discussions. Usually the party does not lose reason, but that happened here. It melted.”
CNN and BBC led titles calling the performance “catastrophic” and “incoherent”.
“If Joe Biden loses elections in November, history will record that it only took 10 minutes to destroy the Presidency,” wrote older journalist CNN, Stephen Collinson in the article. “It was clear that the political catastrophe would soon take place as soon as the 81-year-old commander was reprimanded on stage in Atlanta. “
President Joe Biden participates in the presidential discussion of CNN CNN Studios 27 June 2024 in Atlanta. (Andrew Hardik/Getty Images)
Collinson continued to describe Biden, giving the weakest performance in television history.
New York Times columnist and Bidana Thomas Friedman’s Bidena fan wrote discussion made him “cry” and invite Biden to step down.
“I cannot remember the heart moment in the US politics of the presidential campaign in my life-right because of what revealed: Joe Biden, a good man and a good president, has no job to re-election,” Friedman wrote.
Donilon, who knows Biden for more than four decades, has described the reaction of the Democratic Party as a “crazy”.
“I think the party lost reason,” he said. “If you ask people about this time period, they will tell you that Biden has lost the polls, he will lose. … They spoke in the race with margin.”
He added that he had never seen a situation where the candidate had reduced three points in the summer of the general choice and his party decided he could not win.
President Trump was widely considered the winner of the Atlanta discussion. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
“But that happened, didn’t it?” Said Donilon. “If you actually leave and look at the surveys in the first few days after the discussion, the margin between Trump and Biden approached. She didn’t get bigger.”
He talked about focal groups that had been convened at night, noticing as Trump had won as a whole, they expressed concern about both candidates.
“They will say they are worried about Biden’s age, but they will also say something else,” Donilon said. “They really worried about Trump. They were worried about the fact that he said he would not accept the election results. They worried that he said:” I had nothing to do with January 6. “The feeling of him was that he was not on the side of the people .
President Joe Biden at the White House on December 13, 2023 in Washington, DC (Chip Somodeville/Getty Images)
What really happened, according to Donilon, was not as devastating as it became conventional wisdom.
“I said that would go out the morning after the discussion: Sometimes you can lose a campaign campaign,” he said. “And that happened to us.”
Insisted that the former president was not mentally damaged but admitted catastrophic withdrawal of Afghanistan 2021 and inflation contributed to the Biden fall.
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Joseph A. Wulfsohn Fox News Digital contributed to this report.