• 3 months ago
At a White House press briefing on Wednesday, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre spoke about a comment from a reporter on President Biden.

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00:00Does the President have a duty to review data, like polling information that's coming in,
00:06donor information, the fears and concerns or anxieties expressed by Democrats?
00:11Does he have a duty to review what's happening now?
00:14When you say a duty, can you say more about the duty piece?
00:18You're saying that he's absolutely running.
00:19Yeah.
00:20Well, he's saying that, and I'm sharing with you his view.
00:25And we would invite the President to come here and tell us that directly.
00:28Noted.
00:30But he's awake.
00:32That's inappropriate.
00:33As you heard from your colleague, the President of the WHA, that's inappropriate.
00:37Thank you, Kelly.
00:40My question is, information is coming in and assessment is happening within the party.
00:44Does he have a duty to review that?
00:46Has he closed the door on reviewing the data?
00:50So I'm going to be really mindful, because obviously you're asking me about campaign
00:54numbers and data that's coming in.
00:57And look, what I will note is that this is a President that looks at everything, takes
01:04in all the information.
01:05It's important to him to do so.
01:07I don't want to get into hypotheticals here.
01:10That's not what I'm here to do.
01:12What I can say is, in this moment, we move forward on building on this unprecedented
01:17record that the President has been able to lay out for the American people.
01:21And that's going to be our focus.
01:22I don't want to get into hypotheticals.
01:24I don't want to get ahead into anything else.
01:27It doesn't sound like closing the door to reviewing this over a period of time.
01:31What I can say is the President is moving forward.
01:34He's moving forward as being President.
01:36He's moving forward with his campaign, as his campaign has been very, very clear about
01:40that.
01:41That's what I can speak to, and that's what I can say.
01:45And that is the President's focus.
01:47The President's focus is, how does he continue to do that work?
01:51And anything else that we're hearing or that's being reported is absolutely false.
01:55Is the President telling people he's evaluating the race?
01:59Absolutely false.
02:00That is absolutely false.
02:01I saw that reporting.
02:02We were not given enough time to get back to that reporting, just a couple of minutes.
02:07And we asked the President.
02:08The President responded directly when asked about this question, because we said that
02:13we would.
02:14And the President said, no, it is absolutely false.
02:17That's coming directly from him.
02:19What steps would the President be taking, or would you as a team plan to try to prevent
02:26another episode in public that would be deemed worrisome?
02:29I would not call it an episode.
02:31I would call it, we had a bad night, right?
02:36It was not his best night.
02:38He had a cold.
02:39He was jet lagged.
02:41You heard directly from the President about this.
02:44And when we get knocked down, when he gets knocked down, he gets right back up.
02:49And that's what I would focus on, the President continuing to be very steady and continuing
02:55to work for the American people.

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