EAST HAMPTON, NY -President Joe Biden embarked on a series of fundraising events across two states on Saturday as he works to stamp out a crisis of confidence in his re-election campaign following a feeble debate performance that dismayed his fellow Democrats.
“I understand the concern about the debate. I didn’t have a great night," Biden told the room of about 100 supporters gathered in the Hamptons. “The point is I didn’t have a great night, but neither did Trump.”Another hedge-fund founder, Eric Mindich, and his Tony Award-winning producer wife Stacey, celebrity couple Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, and actor Michael J.
Trump, meanwhile, unleashed a barrage of criticisms, many of which were well-worn falsehoods he has long repeated, including claims that migrants have carried out a crime wave, that Democrats support infanticide, and that he actually won the 2020 election. Many top donors called political advisers in recent days to inquire about little-known rules under which Biden might be removed from the ticket against his will and replaced at or before the Democratic National Convention in August, according to two people who fielded the inquiries.
“I got a lot of emails in the last 24 hours asking whether there should be a public campaign to pressure President Biden to step aside after his bad debate performance last night,” he wrote in the email, which was seen by Reuters. “It certainly delivered a blow to the mood among donors and organizers.”