White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will address the briefing room Tuesday for the first time since President Biden\u2019s rocky debate performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the aftermath of Thursday\u2019s debate in Atlanta, Jean-Pierre did hold a press gaggle aboard Air Force One while en route to Queens, New York, on Friday, but Tuesday will be the first time she returns to the White House briefing room to field questions on camera. Biden returned to the White House Monday night after gathering with family at Camp David in Maryland over the weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n
During the press gaggle with Jean-Pierre, campaign communications director Michael Tyler referenced Biden\u2019s remarks at a Friday post-debate rally in Raleigh, North Carolina.<\/p>\n
Reading from a teleprompter and addressing a live audience, in contrast with the debate, the president told cheering supporters, \u2018I don\u2019t walk as easy as I used to. I don\u2019t speak as smoothly as I used to.\u00a0I don\u2019t debate as well as I used to. But I know what I do know: I know how to tell the truth.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018Obviously, I think the president said himself he\u2019s not as good as a debater as he used to be.\u00a0He doesn\u2019t walk or talk as smoothly as he used to.\u00a0But he knows how to fight like hell. And I think he showed that today in North Carolina,\u2019 Tyler said. \u2018And so, that\u2019s what the American people are going to continue to see day in and day out for the remainder of this campaign: a president in Joe Biden who understands he\u2019s never going to stop fighting for the American people, and he\u2019s never going to stop contrasting that against Donald Trump, who every single day is clearly fighting for himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018So, I think the President is honest about his own performance.\u00a0But as far as what last night\u2019s debate actually provided for the American people, it \u2014 it crystallized the threat \u2014 it begins to crystallize the threat that Donald Trump poses,\u2019 he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After a string of campaign events in New York and New Jersey on Saturday, first lady Jill Biden and the president\u2019s children and grandchildren gathered at Camp David reportedly to encourage the president to stay in the race despite uproar within the Democratic Party questioning whether the current commander-in-chief is a viable candidate to nominate for a second term.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Reports said Biden\u2019s family on Sunday blamed campaign staffers, arguing they did not adequately prepare the president for the CNN debate against former President Trump.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to a new report by Politico on Tuesday, a senior administration official claimed that some of President Biden\u2019s top officials are \u2018scared s\u2014less\u2019 of displeasing him in daily briefings.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018It\u2019s like, \u2018You can\u2019t include that, that will set him off,\u2019 or \u2018Put that in, he likes that,\u2019\u2019 a senior administration official told Politico on background.\u00a0\u2018It\u2019s a Rorschach test, not a briefing. Because he is not a pleasant person to be around when he\u2019s being briefed. It\u2019s very difficult, and people are scared [s\u2014less] of him.\u2019<\/p>\n
The official told Politico that Biden is unwilling to take advice from outside his small inner circle, becoming increasingly isolated from wider public opinion and input.<\/p>\n
\u2018He doesn\u2019t take advice from anyone other than those few top aides, and it becomes a perfect storm because he just gets more and more isolated from their efforts to control it,\u2019 the official reportedly told Politico.<\/p>\n
White House senior deputy press secretary Andrew Bates pushed back on the Politico report\u2019s claim that staff are afraid of the president, telling Fox News Digital, \u2018That\u2019s simply not who [Biden] is.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jeane-Pierre\u2019s White House press briefing is scheduled to start Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n
Fox News\u2019 Timothy H.J. Nerozzi contributed to this report.<\/p>\n\n
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