{"id":4038,"date":"2024-02-09T18:54:48","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T18:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/09\/democrats-work-on-damage-control-after-bidens-fiery-surprise-speech\/"},"modified":"2024-02-09T18:54:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T18:54:48","slug":"democrats-work-on-damage-control-after-bidens-fiery-surprise-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/09\/democrats-work-on-damage-control-after-bidens-fiery-surprise-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats work on damage control after Biden\u2019s fiery surprise speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politicians rally behind president as pundits ask why a mental assessment was even in report about classified document inquiry<\/p>\n<p>Democrats and their allies were shaping a damage control response on Friday to a hastily organized White House press call the night before that appeared to fall short in its mission to reassure voters about Joe Biden\u2019s mental acuity after it was harshly questioned in a prosecutor\u2019s report.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Tammy Baldwin from the crucial swing state of Wisconsin addressed the conclusions by special counsel Robert Hur that the 81-year-old president\u2019s recall was \u201csignificantly limited\u201d, and that Hur would not bring charges over classified documents in part because jurors would see the US president not as a willful criminal but as a \u201cwell-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/feb\/09\/biden-memory-democrats-respond\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politicians rally behind president as pundits ask why a mental assessment was even in report about classified document inquiry Democrats and their allies were shaping a damage control response on Friday to a hastily organized White House press call the night before that appeared to fall short in its mission to reassure voters about Joe &#8230; <a title=\"Democrats work on damage control after Biden\u2019s fiery surprise speech\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/09\/democrats-work-on-damage-control-after-bidens-fiery-surprise-speech\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Democrats work on damage control after Biden\u2019s fiery surprise speech\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}