MSNBC Host Asks Top Biden Adviser Point Blank If They’ve Talked About Him Dropping Out

MSNBC host Symone Sanders-Townsend asked senior Biden adviser Anita Dunn whether she and other top staff have had a conversation with President Joe Biden about dropping out of the 2024 race after the CNN debate.

Following his widely criticized debate performance, Biden has faced a growing tide of calls for him to step aside as the party’s nominee in the race against former president Donald Trump.

However, Biden told a crowd of supporters Friday in North Carolina that he plans on staying in the race and claimed he will beat Trump in the swing state.

At the end of a panel discussion on MSNBC, Dunn was asked by Sanders-Townsend if Biden’s inner circle of strategists and advisers, since the debate, had a private conversation with the president about potentially bowing out of the election before the DNC convention.

SANDERS-TOWNSEND: I know we are out of time, but, I mean, we would be remiss if we did not ask because – you all did not have any kind of conversations about, oh, should Joe Biden drop out of this race?

DUNN: Symone you worked with us.

SANDERS-TOWNSEND: I know, I told – but you’re right here so I was like, we might as well ask. Because people are, there are lots of people chattering that you did. And I’m like, well, let’s ask Anita Dunn. Is that a yes or no?

DUNN: No. The conversation that we had is ‘okay, what do we do next?’ Okay. If there was one thing that we’re about, it’s – okay. It’s Barack Obama said bad debates happen. We had a bad debate. What do we do next? And, you know, the president above all, is focused on what do we do next. What do I need to go do? And I think you saw in North Carolina, he knew exactly what he needed to do yesterday.

Watch the clip above via MSNBC.