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Former high Biden adviser Anita Dunn is taking purpose at Democratic Party management, in addition to the mainstream information media, in a hanging interview through which she accused them each of “horrible” assaults in opposition to the still-sitting President Biden.
Dunn, who not too long ago left the White House to affix the Harris marketing campaign, spoke to Politico in regards to the fallout from the disastrous presidential debate this summer season, through which Biden stumbled by means of a lot of solutions and which in the end led to him being changed on the ticket by Vice President Kamala Harris.
Dunn mentioned the controversy itself wasn’t that dangerous, it was what adopted that will be important.
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“So [former President] Trump didn’t gain any ground in the debate whatsoever. And we actually picked up a few votes in the group. So it was a bad debate, but it didn’t feel catastrophic at all, certainly in terms of voters,” she mentioned.
“And I think other people who did independent research saw roughly the same thing. If you go back and you look at the polls, what you will see is you didn’t see much movement whatsoever coming out of the debate because the structure of this campaign had been fairly static for a long time, and the debate didn’t change that.”
Anita Dunn, senior adviser to President Biden, middle, and White House Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs Reema Dodin, proper, arrive for a lunch assembly with Senate Democrats on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on July 22, 2021. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
“What did change it was 24 days of unremitting negative, horrible attacks on Joe Biden,” she mentioned.
When requested to make clear who these assaults got here from, Dunn pulled no punches: “From his own party and from the press.”
She additionally mentioned that after that debate there was a press ambiance that was “just unremittingly negative” and was made worse by leaders of the celebration talking out.
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“Clearly there were leaders of the party who decided to go ahead and go very public. And that gave permission to other people to go public,” she mentioned.
Dunn was requested if an instance of that was when former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., went on TV twice within the days after the controversy.
“Absolutely,” she mentioned.
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Dunn later side-stepped a query about whether or not Biden continues to be offended at Pelosi, in addition to former President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. — whereas additionally taking one other swipe at some in management.
“The task in front of us is to win this election and to not let Donald Trump become president again and to win the House of Representatives, which had certain leaders in 2022 done a slightly better job, maybe we would control today, but we don’t,” she mentioned.
Tensions have been simmering internally throughout the Biden camp. NBC News reported that these tensions boiled over in gentle of the controversy, with Biden members of the family discussing whether or not Dunn must be fired — reportedly angered by her suggestion first son Hunter Biden maintain a low profile.
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Dunn was requested a few letter despatched by President Biden to lawmakers saying he wasn’t getting out of the race, which she admits backfired on some members. When requested if Hunter was concerned, she mentioned: “That is not true.”
