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The vice president’s Utah visit came as some supporters called on President Joe Biden to drop out following the first presidential debate.
Attendee Lisa Grey told KPCW she came to the campaign fundraiser “distraught” after Biden’s debate performance facing President Donald Trump June 27.
But, she said Harris reassured her at the event in The Colony the afternoon of June 28.
Harris only briefly addressed the debate, saying the current president had “a slow start, but a good finish.”
“The president said that this was not his finest moment in terms of the debate,” Harris told the crowd of Utah donors the day after the debate. “He is a great and intelligent and profound thinker.”
It’s the same line she took in a post-debate interview with ABC News, where she also added that the election shouldn’t be decided on the basis of a single debate.
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