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Ex-aide to Jill Biden says campaign is 'gaslighting' Americans with polling that president should stay in the race
Michael LaRosa, Jill Biden's former press secretary, called out Bidenworld for 'gaslighting' the American public by saying data indicated the 2024 race hadn't shifted after the 81-year-old's disastrous debate.
LaRosa first made the claim in a tweet Sunday after former White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield said on CNN's State of the Union that 'the race has not fundamentally changed' post-debate.
Bedingfield cited 'data' that had emerged since Thursday's debate in Atlanta that purportedly showed that Americans weren't 'suddenly moving toward Trump' and found the Republican former president 'not persuasive.'
The major headline out of the debate, however, was President Joe Biden's jumbled and sometimes incoherent responses.
'The data!? If there is data that counters the impact of what we all saw then WHERE THE HELL IS IT???' LaRosa begged in a post on X Sunday. 'WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU WAITING FOR?? SHOW US!'
First lady Jill Biden's former press secretary Michael LaRosa called out Bidenworld for 'gaslighting' the American public by saying data indicated the 2024 race hadn't shifted after the 81-year-old's disastrous debate
In an X post Sunday and then during a Fox & Friends interview Monday morning, the former East Wing spokesman asked to see 'The data?!' that purportedly showed that the race was virtually unchanged after Biden's rough debate
'Jesus Christ with the gaslighting, the talking points, and the damn spinning. Enough already. Show your supporters or the media this data so we can help you help him!' the former White House aide continued.
LaRosa pointed out that for 'A YEAR' Biden aides pushed that polling data couldn't be trusted.
'[N]o one is paying attention ... and all the polling and date are unreliable,' the ex-aide went on.
Biden has trailed former President Donald Trump in many major polls.
'Are we NOW supposed to believe it?' he asked, referring to the 'data' that allegedly shows Biden untainted from the debate. 'You've been undermining all the public data and polling and attacking news outlets and their independent data for a year!'
'Is it now safe to trust the data?' he mused.
'Should we believe your data instead of independent media data and polling???' he asked. 'Ok, cool. WHERE THE HELL IS IT?'
President Joe Biden (left) and first lady Jill Biden (right) are pictured during a trip to the Hamptons to raise funds for the reelection campaign on Saturday. LaRosa said Dr. Biden wouldn't be supporting the president staying in the race if that's not what he wanted
LaRosa appeared on Fox & Friends Monday morning and continued to demand to see the numbers Biden surrogates were pushing.
Co-host Steve Doocy pointed out that Americans all saw the debate Thursday night, describing Biden's performance as 'terrible.'
'Yeah, that's ultimately going to be the problem. Look, we live in a visual world. It's hard to put the toothpaste back in the tube,' LaRosa acknowledged.
He also pointed out that Biden's team 'got everything they wanted in this debate in terms of parameters.'
'And there was so much riding on this first impression,' he added. 'He won't have probably another audience like that. And even the convention won't get them what they need.'
LaRosa, who was first lady Jill Biden's campaign spokesperson in 2020 and then served in the same role in the White House until 2022, pushed back on the narrative that Dr. Biden is the main person pressuring her husband to stay in the race.
He pointed out that Joe and Jill 'don't live in each other's shadows.'
'And if he didn't want to be president, if he didn't want to run again, she would be the first one in her car headed to the beach and she would have no reason to ever come back to Washington, D.C.,' LaRosa said. 'She doesn't care about politics.'