Desk report:\u00a0 <\/b>Joe Biden is \u201cabsolutely not\u201d pulling out of the White House race, his spokeswoman said Wednesday, as pressure mounted on the president following his disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump. Panic has gripped Democrats in the wake of last week\u2019s TV debate, and internal rumblings about finding a replacement candidate before November\u2019s election have been amplified by polls showing Trump extending his lead. The New York Times and CNN reported that\u00a0Biden, 81, had acknowledged to a key ally that his reelection bid was on the line if he failed to quickly reassure the public that he was still up to the job.<\/p>\n
White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre rejected those reports outright, insisting Biden has no intention of withdrawing. \u201cThe president is clear-eyed and he is staying in the race,\u201d she told reporters.In a call with campaign and party staffers,\u00a0Biden\u00a0insisted he was going nowhere.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m in this race to the end and we\u2019re going to win because when Democrats unite, we will always win. Just as we beat Donald Trump in 2020, we\u2019re going to beat him again in 2024,\u201d he said, according to a source close to the campaign. He repeated that message in an emergency meeting at the White House with Democratic governors, who pledged their continued support, attendees said afterward. \u201cAs the president continued to tell us, and show us, that he was all in\u2026 we said that we would stand with him,\u201d Maryland Governor Wes Moore, seen as a rising star and potential future presidential candidate, told reporters alongside Minnesota\u2019s Tim Walz and Kathy Hochul of New York.<\/p>\n
Walz said Biden was \u201cfit to serve.\u201d Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, who also attended the meeting and is seen as one of the top picks to replace Biden if he should drop out, said on X that he \u201cis our nominee.\u201d \u201cHe is in it to win it and I support him,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
Biden has repeatedly admitted he performed poorly in the debate, and was blunt in a radio interview recorded Wednesday with Wisconsin\u2019s Civic Media. \u201cI screwed up. I made a mistake. That\u2019s 90 minutes on stage. Look at what I\u2019ve done in 3.5 years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Aftermath \u2013<\/p>\n
The Biden campaign has been desperate to reassure Democratic donors and voters that the president\u2019s performance against Trump was a one-off, and not a fatal blow to his hopes of a second term. But party figures have voiced bafflement over what they see as deflection and excuses from the president and his aides. The concern was compounded by a New York Times poll conducted after the debate that showed Trump with his biggest lead ever over Biden \u2014 49 percent to 43 percent of likely voters. It wasn\u2019t until Wednesday \u2014 six days after the debate \u2014 that\u00a0Biden\u00a0completed a round of calls with Democratic congressional leaders, and staffers have also voiced consternation over the glacial pace of the outreach.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are getting to the point where it may not have been the debate that did him in, but the aftermath of how they\u2019ve handled it,\u201d a senior Democratic operative told Washington political outlet Axios. Biden\u00a0may be tested on his ability to think on his feet when he sits with ABC News on Friday for his first television interview since the debate, and he will also hit the swing states of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania in the coming days.<\/p>\n
\u2013 \u2018More worrisome\u2019 \u2013<\/p>\n
The president has cited fatigue as a new explanation for his poor debate showing, saying that he was unwise to travel \u201caround the world a couple times\u201d before the debate. But he had been back in the United States for nearly two weeks and spent two days relaxing and six days preparing before the debate. Democratic lawmakers have begun to go public with their doubts. Arizona congressman Raul Grijalva became the second sitting Democrat to call on Biden to drop out. \u201cIf he\u2019s the candidate, I\u2019m going to support him, but I think that this is an opportunity to look elsewhere,\u201d Grijalva said, according to the Times. In the street where the president grew up in Scranton, Pennsylvania, there was sympathy for Biden \u2014 but no campaign signs for either candidate. \u201cI was embarrassed for him. I felt he didn\u2019t feel well and he probably shouldn\u2019t have gone on the stage,\u201d said 73-year-old Jamie Hayes.<\/p>\n
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