National Pulse Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam has argued the Republican leadership should move to ban such plotters from the delegate floor at the Convention to forestall the “carnage” they could cause there.

On the meeting with Peñalosa, Robert Schwartz, who coordinated the call, said he believed Biden’s team “heard kind of loud and clear from a lot of Haley voters that they’re just not there yet, and they need Biden to send kind of clear signals that he’s going to govern in a kind of a more bipartisan centrist way.”