How Biden HQ's 'bunker' mentality teed up a debate meltdown

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : When aides to the president suggested he was the best and only candidate who could beat Trump, few pushed back.
27% : "It's the same people -- he has not changed those people for 40 years," said one Democratic operative and close adviser to several members of Congress, who blamed the entire group for refusing to shift course even as Biden trailed Trump for months in the polls.
18% : By the time Biden's campaign proposed two debates with Trump, many White House staffers had no idea it was in the works, according to three administration officials.
16% : They described the inner circle, Donilon especially, as convinced "that this was going to be about Trump, not about Biden, and at the end of the day, people just wouldn't vote for Trump.

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