Biden's campaign paid a speech coach a day after widely panned debate performance

The day after Joe Biden tanked in the first round of Democratic presidential debates, his campaign hired a prominent speech coach for the 36-year senator and 8-year vice president.

Records from the Biden’s second-quarter Federal Election Commission filing show his campaign paid Washington, D.C.-based Sheehan Associates $5,300 for “strategic consulting” on June 28. The night before Biden was put on the defensive in the first round of Democratic debates by California Sen. Kamala Harris, who jabbed at his 1970s-era record opposing school busing and recent braggadocio about working with segregationist senators.