that," another source said.

Biden's campaign knew his support for the Hyde Amendment would spark outrage. It was the topic of intense meetings both before and after NBC first reported his continued support for the Hyde Amendment on Wednesday.

Several people within the campaign on multiple occasions pressed him on why it's important to repeal Hyde, pointing out "why that's problematic from a point of view of low income women and women of color and the impact that had and that it's different now with threats to abortion and Roe," one source familiar with the matter said.

Aware of the criticism he was certain to face, Biden's camp gave advance notice to Planned Parenthood and other progressive organizations. Those groups had been pleased to see the video posted on Twitter inMay in which Biden told an ACLU volunteer he opposed the Hyde Amendment. Their leaders were surprised that a reversal was coming and pushed back hard, at first privately, and then publicly starting Wednesday morning.

Biden's Democratic opponents piled on, marking the first time the full 2020 field had ganged up on the former vice president.

"His team gave him a very unvarnished view of what would happen," one source familiar with the matter said. "I think he needed to kind of see that and also feel it and also hear from his core supporters, and he's very open to hearing from his people."

Senior adviser Symone Sanders and other aides made a forceful case directly to Biden on Thursday in Atlanta that ultimately led to him changing his long-held position