Former DNC chair says media, political elites only ones panicking over Biden debate debacle

Democratic Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said panic over President Biden's debate performance was driven by the media and "political elites," not voters.

CNN host John Berman pressed the former Democratic National Committee chair about how the Biden campaign can assuage voters' concerns about the president's age and fitness for office, following his widely panned debate performance last Thursday.

"Look, this is a conversation, honestly, John, that is taking place among elites," Wasserman Schultz told Berman, going on to praise the president's record on the economy and health care. "My constituents at home, voters across this country, are not going to be focused on what The New York Times or The Atlanta Journal-Constitution talks about. They‘re not focused on what the political elites are hand-wringing about. They‘re focused on making sure that we can have a president like Joe Biden."

Biden has faced calls from sympathetic voices in the Times, the Chicago Tribune, the AJC, "The View," MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, and New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman, Paul Krugman and Nicholas Kristof, among numerous others, to drop out following his listless debate performance.

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"I just think anyone who was anywhere this weekend talking to anybody, the subject of discussion was the debate and was President Biden‘s performance," Berman said.

However, Wasserman Schultz said Democratic voters in her district cared more about Biden's record and wanted the party to press on and stop worrying about the debate.

"When I talked to voters in my district, they want to make sure that we can put our heads down, move forward, and organize