 Meanwhile, top Democratic leaders are publicly standing by Biden. And President Biden is facing criticism for his use of teleprompters in a closed-door meeting with Democratic donors. MSNBC's John Heilman, in his Impolitic podcast, claimed that donors are, in his words, quote, freaked out by the fact Biden doesn't speak off the cuff during private fundraisers. The claim comes after Biden's debate performance in which he stumbled over his words and appeared to lose his train of thought many times.