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with us, "washington post" political columnist sharon tumulty.oters. lisa, you were part of a team that broke significant news about the briden campaign? >> we just broke that jen o'mally dylan, a major player in the white house, is going to come over and help with the campaign operations. this is certainly showing that they're shifting to the general election, that they're starting to get much more in election mode. it's also sort of a response in some ways, maybe implicitly, to a lot of criticism that we've all been hearing from democrats over the past six months or a year that really run the gamut. concerns about the messaging, whether focusing too much on democracy and trump and not enough on the economy and what biden has done, abortion, other issues. concerns about staffing. some reporting president biden -- that president obama has weighed in with concerns. this is the sign the biden team is moving into re-election mode and dump more resources into this campaign. >> jen o'mally dylan, she ran the campaign, the last campaign in 2020, where

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