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Last month’s CNN interview was one such instance where she appeared too controlled, too tamped down.

Others quickly tamped down the idea, but it was a foreshadowing.

Now he gathered a heap of soft grass and, with stone and stick for hammer and chisel, tamped it into all the crevices to prevent leakage.

Fast forward to the present and the second-guessing about his fundraising operation has tamped down.

Biden’s campaign has argued the White House has tamped down inflation and proposed border legislation that would give agents new powers to stop migrants that Republicans helped negotiate, only to reject.