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How Biden aides are trying to shield the president from protests
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s team is increasingly taking extraordinary steps to minimize disruptions from pro-Palestinian protests at his events by making them smaller, withholding their precise locations from the media and the public until he arrives, avoiding college campuses and, in at least one instance, considering hiring a private company to vet attendees.
The efforts have resulted in zero disruptions at events the White House or the campaign have organized for Biden in the five weeks since he was interrupted a dozen times during an abortion rights speech in Virginia.
They saw his Virginia speech as an inflection point that prompted them to rethink the sizes, audiences and locations of events for him and other top White House officials, including Vice President Kamala Harris.
The Biden campaign is organizing a number of “larger-scale events over the coming weeks,” after the State of the Union address, according to a source familiar with the planning, “reaching voters where they are, including on college campuses.”
Last week, though, Biden chose to announce a $1.2 billion student loan forgiveness program in front of a few dozen people at a small public library in the Los Angeles area, not at one of the at least five large college campuses within a 10-mile radius.
A Democratic strategist who was struck by the staging at Biden’s student loan forgiveness event noted that while the precautions for potential protesters are understandable, such measures pose a long-term political challenge for the party if its presidential nominee is unable to hold big rallies on university campuses.
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