I had a lot of Republican friends who were sending me text during this period saying,

your party is insane.

They were saying, we've never seen anything like this.

Anita Dunn left her position as a senior advisor to the president this week, marking the end of an

era for the Biden White House.

Dunn has been a close Biden confidant since the first days of his 2020 campaign.

I was on that campaign after he came in fifth in New Hampshire,

had no money.

We had people calling us all the time

to say he should drop out, that he should get out, now was the time for him to get out.

And he wasn't ready to do that.

It was done who helped take charge of that campaign after Biden lost the first three primary

contests before turning things around in South Carolina. And it was after that

victory when a key piece of Biden world lore was born, that the press, pundits,

and many politicians always underestimate Joe Biden.

After Dunn joined the new president in the White House as a core member of his tight inner circle,

that lesson repeated itself.

First with the passage of his legislative agenda, after months of uncertainty,

and then again in the 2022 midterms when

Biden did not suffer the massive losses in Congress that first-term presidents have

come to expect. So after Biden's catastrophic performance at the June CNN debate,

Dunn and the Biden team developed a familiar strategy. Power through the media and party mob dumping on Biden and race to the

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