Matt Bai: Joe Biden’s team is aping Donald Trump with this refusal to face reality
Joe Biden's performance in the first presidential debate was not simply a 'rough night'. Photo: Reuters
The Biden campaign has now had almost a full week to process the US president’s debate performance and the resulting panic within the Democratic Party, and his advisers have settled on a strategy.
The message is: whatever you thought you saw, you didn’t actually see it. Stop quivering like a bunch of nervous guinea pigs and get out of our way. Campaign aides have derided nervous supporters as a “bedwetting brigade��. They’ve admonished their contributors to calm down and “breathe through the nose”. They’ve pre-emptively dismissed negative polls as the product of “overblown media narratives”.
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