Democratic Senator Attacks Biden Campaign’s ‘Dismissive Attitude’ To Voter Concerns Over Debate ‘Setback’

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Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt) attacked President Joe Biden’s team over its “dismissive attitude” to voter anxiety voiced in the wake of CNN’s presidential debate after a weekend campaign email ripped the “bedwetting brigade” of supporters calling for a new election candidate.

In the wake of Biden’s debate performance on Thursday, some senior Democrats have voiced concerns about the president’s ability to lead the ticket against former President Donald Trump.

Speaking to Semafor on Monday, Welch stated his opposition to the campaign’s reactive “passivity.”

“I really do criticize the campaign for a dismissive attitude towards people who are raising questions for discussion. That’s just facing the reality that we’re in. That’s hardly — I won’t repeat their term,” he said of the term ‘bedwetting’. “But that’s the discussion we have to have. It has to be from the top levels of the Biden campaign to precinct captains in the southside of Chicago.”

He added: “The campaign has raised the concerns themselves. So then to be dismissive of others who raise those concerns, I think it’s inappropriate.”

Semafor reported that Welch said the campaign had an “existential responsibility” to defeat Trump in November but that the “challenge” of the campaign was now to undo the “damage” of the debate, which he called a “serious setback”, by reassuring voters of Biden’s competence with unscripted press engagements.

The Vermont senator continued: “Passivity is not the response that is going to work for us. We all have to be self-conscious. We all have to be acutely aware that our obligation is to the country, even more than the party. That’s the obligation we have — what’s best for the country.”

The Biden campaign has yet to comment on Welch’s remarks.