The Biden campaign sees no substantial change in the president’s prospects of securing the Democratic nomination and finally resuscitating his campaign after one other day of tough headlines, one senior campaign official and one individual near Mr. Biden inform CBS News.
A collection of stories reviews Wednesday detailed how prime Democratic congressional leaders have conveyed issues that Mr. Biden may lose and drag down the social gathering’s congressional and gubernatorial candidates nationwide.
But these two folks say the campaign believes these reviews are merely conveying what’s already identified: that the president is enduring a tough stretch of presidential politics – maybe the hardest in the fashionable period.Â
The sources consider Mr. Biden will head again to work in the approaching days after testing positive for COVID-19, seemingly by early subsequent week, and proceed rolling out new coverage concepts.
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Their concept: the leadup to the Democratic National Convention will construct momentum and culminate with the most important Democratic stars (the Clintons, the Obamas, Vice President Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff) on the brightest stage in politics, and {that a} well-orchestrated show of unity will result in a lift in the president’s standing in polls and to extra campaign donations.
The individual near the president dismissed as “absurd” the concept the president’s COVID prognosis would hasten requires his exit from the race. “Being responsible and not spreading COVID is a good thing,” the individual stated.
High-dollar fundraising stays a problem for the campaign however smaller greenback donations proceed. That is in step with earlier CBS News reporting that the campaign and allied tremendous PACs are struggling to convey in bigger checks as donors withhold funding till the president can show indicators of a rebound.
