My prediction that the press would circle the wagons around Joe Biden post-debate took a few days longer than expected to come to fruition, but that’s undeniably what’s happening now. Kelly O’Donnell, the NBC News reporter who heads up the White House Correspondents Association, left no doubt Thursday evening, turning into a spokesperson for the Biden administration.
Here’s what I wrote in early July.
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The problem is that the media is filled with partisans who do not want Donald Trump to win. That’s left them with a conundrum. Do they go full-bore to try to push Biden aside for Kamala Harris, a risky strategy in its own right? Or do they fully circle the wagons and go back to being White House lap dogs? We are in a gray zone at this moment where they are still trying to figure out the…