White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre fielded many questions during her White House briefing Tuesday regarding President Joe Biden’s fitness for office in light of his troubling debate performance last week. And the Biden team’s strategy became apparent as she came back to the same talking points again and again: Re-contextualize what people saw. The first talking point to that end was that the president had a bad night. So it’s not that he’s in cognitive decline, but he wasn’t firing on all cylinders at the debate. Second, Biden “knows what he’s doing” despite being slower on the dra…
