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The Guardian - US
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Robert Tait in Washington

How the vaunted White House press briefing plunged into conflict after debate debacle

Woman on podium points to reporters with hands in the air
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre fields questions from reporters on Monday. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

It was the moment when long-simmering media resentment at a seemingly opaque White House broke through the surface with startling intensity.

With Joe Biden’s candidacy teetering in the wake of last month’s alarming debate showing, journalists who had covered his presidency full-time for years suddenly asserted that it lacked that most basic political element: credibility.

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