“President Biden’s senior advisers ramped up efforts to soothe skittish Democrats on Monday, placing a flurry of calls to lawmakers, contacting donors and circulating an internal poll suggesting he had not lost ground after his much-criticized debate performance,” the Washington Post reports.
“At the same time, party officials finalized a timeline to formally nominate Biden within weeks, a move that could limit talk of alternative candidates.”
“Taken together, the actions by the small circle of Biden’s most loyal advisers were meant to reemphasize that the president has no plans to exit the race despite calls from a range of allies who worry he cannot recover from last week’s debate performance, which at times created an image of a raspy-voiced elderly man who struggled to complete a thought.”
