text:  It depends on who you mean in the press corps, right? You're thinking about the young people who are on the ground as the people who are assigned to be there that night. They're just following directions. I think the higher level fact of the matter is the managerial class has lost their use for Joe Biden. So in some sense, they were prepared for him to be hung out to dry. What I really think is the fact that any Americans at home are surprised by what they saw. And many of my independent and centrist friends last night were shocked.