Biden campaign chair tells demoralized staff 'don't watch cable news' hours after MSNBC appearance
Biden-Harris campaign chair Jen O'Malley Dillon cautioned staff to avoid watching cable news in order to prevent further demoralization among her team.
As the daily calls, both publicly and privately, for President Biden to drop out of the presidential race continue apace more than three weeks after the debate, campaign staff are reportedly suffering from a lack of morale. In that vein, O’Malley Dillon convened an all-staff call on Friday, telling them to ignore the news reports, and instead listen to Biden’s hardcore supporters for a reality check.
"Don't watch cable news all the time," O'Malley Dillon told her staff, according to Axios, "That is not the real world. The real world is the voters that are standing with us, the delegates that are with us, and we're going to weather this because of this organization."
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"When you give me polls, I'm going to give you direct voter contact," O'Malley Dillon said, sources told Fox News. "The people that the president is hearing from are saying, ‘Stay in this race and keep going and keep fighting, and we need you.’"
"Those voices will never be as loud as the people on TV, but remember that the people in our country are not watching cable news," she added.
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Just hours before the call, the campaign chair made a rare media appearance on cable news, assuring the audience and hosts of MSNBC’s "Morning Joe" that Biden is staying in the race and is "more committed than ever to beat Donald Trump."
"The president's in this race," O'Malley Dillon told the program. "You've heard him say that time and time again, and I think we saw on