DNC holds 911 call with party members as it works to suppress concern over debate debacle

The Biden campaign is working overtime to quell the overwhelming panic after the President’s disastrous debate performance — and even had party bigwigs set up a call with members to talk them off the ledge, sources said.On Saturday — while Biden rubbed elbows with mega-donors in the Hamptons — the Democratic National Committee held the hastily put together call led by Biden campaign manager Julie Chávez Rodriguez and DNC chairman Jaime Harrison meant to calm fear and frustration.“They are trying to minimize the debate as much as possible,” a source tells the New York Post.“It was meant to indirectly dismiss any discussion.”Adding, “It was matter of fact, we are moving forward.” Invites to the call went out on Friday, following a performance that saw a stumbling Biden, 81, looking frail and discombobulated. Over the course of 45 minutes, there was only a “passing reference to the debate,” in the form of a quote from a rally Biden did in North Carolina on Friday in which the President said, “I don’t walk as easily as I used to, I don’t speak as smoothly as I used to, I don’t debate as well as I used to.

But I know what I do know.I know how to tell the truth,” sources said.A spokesperson from the DNC tried to downplay the call, telling The Post that it was just another of its quarterly meetings in which Chair Harrison gave the latest on fundraising numbers and recapped the week.That discussion included the debate, “when President Biden outlined a positive vision to drive progress and Donald Trump lied through his teeth and refused to accept the results of the election,” DNC’s Hannah Muldavin said.But as pundits and countless news organizations, including the New York Times editorial board, are calling for Biden to step down, the party is holding the line.The discussion was about moving the campaign forward, sources said.“They were saying the energy is amazing.

It was the standard talk you would give.” Bu...