Democrat megadonor Reid Hoffman doubled down on his support for President Joe Biden in the aftermath of his performance at the presidential debate against former President Donald Trump, noting that he could “very much still win this election.”
In an email, Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn, addressed concerns from Democrat voters, politicians, and donors about Biden’s age and how that may have impacted Thursday night’s presidential debate.
While Hoffman admitted that Biden’s debate performance had been “bad,” he described suggestions that Biden be replaced as a “bad idea.”
“I got a lot of emails in the last 24 hours asking whether there should be a public campaign to pressure President Biden to step aside after his (very) bad debate performance last night,” Hoffman wrote. “It certainly delivered a blow to the mood among donors and organizers….
