Somber White House gossips about which official spoke to NYT: report

White House staff remain in a dour mood following President Biden's debate performance, and many have now turned to gossip about anonymous senior staffers who have been cited in the New York Times and elsewhere saying the president should drop out of his race.

The staffer was described by the Times as having worked with Biden during his presidency, vice presidency and 2020 campaign. When asked about the individual, one senior White House official told CNN, "They shouldn’t be in the White House. Period.”

The staffer went on to insist that no one in the White House is considering the possibility of Biden dropping out. Nevertheless, reports of a somber mood at the West Wing and executive offices continue to spill out into the public.

“They’re just kind of: ‘He’s in.’ They’re not veering off that, because once that cracks, that cracks hard,” one senior Democrat in close contact with both White House and campaign officials told CNN