Jake Tapper

And I'm usually a little bit earthier with my language, but I didn't know who was back there. And Dan wrote me a piece of paper saying he just lost the election because when he said, we finally beat Medicare... Just the height of inarticulation.

And I'm usually a little bit earthier with my language, but I didn't know who was back there. And Dan wrote me a piece of paper saying he just lost the election because when he said, we finally beat Medicare... Just the height of inarticulation.

And I'm usually a little bit earthier with my language, but I didn't know who was back there. And Dan wrote me a piece of paper saying he just lost the election because when he said, we finally beat Medicare... Just the height of inarticulation.

And, you know, one top aide to Biden said to me, if the presidency is about two things, making decisions and communicating them, he always made good decisions, but he could never communicate them. And it got worse and worse. And I think the Biden team would dismiss the communication stuff as performative, like as if performing is a bad thing.

And, you know, one top aide to Biden said to me, if the presidency is about two things, making decisions and communicating them, he always made good decisions, but he could never communicate them. And it got worse and worse. And I think the Biden team would dismiss the communication stuff as performative, like as if performing is a bad thing.

And, you know, one top aide to Biden said to me, if the presidency is about two things, making decisions and communicating them, he always made good decisions, but he could never communicate them. And it got worse and worse. And I think the Biden team would dismiss the communication stuff as performative, like as if performing is a bad thing.

When, in fact, it's a huge and vital part of the American presidency, you know, certainly in the television age dating back to JFK.

When, in fact, it's a huge and vital part of the American presidency, you know, certainly in the television age dating back to JFK.

When, in fact, it's a huge and vital part of the American presidency, you know, certainly in the television age dating back to JFK.

Democrats were shocked. They were just absolutely stunned. And I think there were really two camps. There was the Biden camp, which was, OK, how do we get out of this? How do we crawl back? Because Joe Biden, as I said earlier, as a compliment, you know, he cannot be defeated. That's his great attitude. He's not going to be defeated by brain aneurysms, by this tragedy, by that tragedy.

Democrats were shocked. They were just absolutely stunned. And I think there were really two camps. There was the Biden camp, which was, OK, how do we get out of this? How do we crawl back? Because Joe Biden, as I said earlier, as a compliment, you know, he cannot be defeated. That's his great attitude. He's not going to be defeated by brain aneurysms, by this tragedy, by that tragedy.

Democrats were shocked. They were just absolutely stunned. And I think there were really two camps. There was the Biden camp, which was, OK, how do we get out of this? How do we crawl back? Because Joe Biden, as I said earlier, as a compliment, you know, he cannot be defeated. That's his great attitude. He's not going to be defeated by brain aneurysms, by this tragedy, by that tragedy.

So I think their attitude was, OK, how do we get out of this? And then I think there were other Democrats who were like, oh, my God, what? happened? Did we really just see what we saw? And there was a feeling among that second group, okay, go out and the obvious, you don't need to be a...

So I think their attitude was, OK, how do we get out of this? And then I think there were other Democrats who were like, oh, my God, what? happened? Did we really just see what we saw? And there was a feeling among that second group, okay, go out and the obvious, you don't need to be a...

So I think their attitude was, OK, how do we get out of this? And then I think there were other Democrats who were like, oh, my God, what? happened? Did we really just see what we saw? And there was a feeling among that second group, okay, go out and the obvious, you don't need to be a...

you know, a genius political consultant to know that the obvious remedy to fixing what he had just done was to go out and do 15 interviews and 20 town halls and five press conferences and just show people that he was sharp as a tack, as they had been saying. And the problem was he couldn't do that. And that's why his pollsters ultimately concluded there was just no way to get out of it.

you know, a genius political consultant to know that the obvious remedy to fixing what he had just done was to go out and do 15 interviews and 20 town halls and five press conferences and just show people that he was sharp as a tack, as they had been saying. And the problem was he couldn't do that. And that's why his pollsters ultimately concluded there was just no way to get out of it.

you know, a genius political consultant to know that the obvious remedy to fixing what he had just done was to go out and do 15 interviews and 20 town halls and five press conferences and just show people that he was sharp as a tack, as they had been saying. And the problem was he couldn't do that. And that's why his pollsters ultimately concluded there was just no way to get out of it.

This was a disaster and it was going to keep getting worse and worse until election day.

This was a disaster and it was going to keep getting worse and worse until election day.