Biden Campaign Chair Admits to Having Two ‘Bad F*cking Weeks’: ‘If We Can Get Through These Two Weeks… We Can Get Through Anything’

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Jen O’Malley Dillon, the chair of the President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, acknowledged the hardships of the last few weeks in a all-staff campaign call on Thursday.

“We had two very, very, very hard weeks, very bad weeks. I told you I’d level with you, they’ve been bad fucking weeks,” O’Malley Dillon told staffer, according to Axios’s Alex Thompson. “This two week window has really sucked, and it is hard, there is no doubt about it. And it’s hard for all of us because we are doing the job.”

She also reportedly pointed to Biden’s example in an effort to inspire the group, noting that advisor Mike Donilon says that “he’s never seen a presidential candidate have more thrown at him than Joe Biden and do you know what Joe Biden does every day? He gets up, and he keeps fighting.”

“If we can get through these two weeks that we’re living through, we can get through anything,” she added.

A campaign spokesman praised O’Malley Dillon for her message, telling Thompson that “if you needed a reminder for why we are in this fight, Jen provided just that tonight with the confidence and energy that matters to the team that has moved their lives to save democracy from Trump and re-elect Joe Biden.”

It has been another tumultuous week for the Biden campaign, as it had seemed to steady the ship earlier this week before former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) left some breadcrumbs suggesting that she still hoped Biden might be persuaded to drop out on Morning Joe and actor George Clooney moved ahead with a New York Times op-ed calling on Biden to step aside.

Still, the president and his team have continued to insist that he will stay in the race until the bitter end and are pitching his press conference on Thursday as a turning point.

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