President Biden held a highly anticipated press conference in Washington on Thursday in which he faced nearly an hour of questions from reporters about the calamity now surrounding his 2024 reelection campaign.
The event closed this week’s NATO summit during which the president hosted foreign leaders. But world events did little to quell the panic among Democrats back home who are increasingly losing confidence in their party leader.
Biden at the press conference once again rejected calls to drop out of the race, but pushes for him to step aside have increased in recent days and resumed following his Q&A with the media.
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