‘Americans should be scared’: Biden allies use forceful rhetoric on media call after bad debate performance

President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign has shifted into a full-court press against Donald Trump in response to the incumbent’s disastrous debate performance last week.

On a press call Monday, Biden campaign surrogates including former Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, and deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks warned that American democracy would disappear in November if Democrats and concerned Americans did not rally behind the president. The call was organized in response to the Supreme Court’s decision granting Trump and all US presidents limited immunity from prosecution for official acts. It also appears to be in response to newfound concerns from his own party that Biden isn’t a strong enough candidate to win the presidential election.

Notably, the Biden campaign team only took questions from four journalists on the call, only one of whom was a White House beat reporter.

Instead, the surrogates leaned in to apocalyptic language and alarmed rhetoric that posited the Supreme Court’s decision as giving Trump carte blanche to commit crimes.

Dunn, who recently mounted an unsuccessful run for a Maryland House seat as a Democrat, called Trump “the single greatest threat to the United States of America in a generation” and warned that voters cannot allow him “anywhere near the Oval Office again.”

New York Representative Daniel Goldman, a former federal prosecutor, attacked the high court as “compromised and conflicted” and accused it of having “set back our democracy dramatically” by allowing “someone like Donald Trump to conspire with others while utilizing ostensibly official acts as president to conspire to overturn an election.”

To the extent that the Biden surrogates and campaign