Loyal Ex-Biden aide says fateful debate against Trump was ‘overblown’ in closed-door House grilling
One of former President Joe Biden’s top spokespeople dismissed the fallout from the former president’s disastrous June 2024 debate performance during a closed-door interview with the House Oversight Committee that lasted over five hours. Andrew Bates, who served as White House senior deputy press secretary and worked in Biden’s communications shop for nearly his entire