President Joe Biden insisted he can still win the election in his first campaign rally after his disastrous debate performance.
The 81-year-old’s car crash showdown with Donald Trump Thursday sparked a crisis within the Democratic Party.
The president used a rally in Raleigh to assuage those fears Friday afternoon.
‘I know I’m not a young man. To state the obvious,’ Biden said. ‘Folks, I don’t walk as easily as I used to. I don’t speak as smoothly as I used to. I don’t debate as well as I used to.’
‘But I know what I know – I know how to tell the truth. I know right from wrong. And I know how to do this job. I know how to get things done,’ the president argued.
He also assured the crowd ‘I give you my word as a Biden.’
‘I would not be running again if I didn’t believe with all my heart and soul that I could do this job,’ Biden said.
President Joe Biden insisted he can still win the election in his first campaign rally after his disastrous debate performance
The president used the 20-minute speech to clean up many of the arguments he attempted to make on the debate stage against his Republican opponent.
First lady Jill Biden, who helped her husband off the stage after his CNN calamity, wore a dress covered in the word ‘vote’ and defended his debate performance.
‘What you saw last night on the debate stage was Joe Biden – a president with integrity and character who told the truth. And Donald Trump told lie after lie after lie,’ Dr. Biden said.
She marveled when the audience joined in and called Trump a liar.
Dr. Biden applauded her husband for spending the last few years helping ‘heal the country.’
He ‘helped us heal from the chaos of the last administration.’
‘We can’t choose our chapter of history, but we can choose who leads us through it,’ she said. ‘There is noone I would rather have sitting in the Oval Office right now than my husband.’
Behind the scenes there are calls to replace him on the 2024 ticket with just 130 days until the nominating convention in Chicago.
‘Deflated’ White House staffers have reportedly been filling group chats with messages saying their boss’s performance was ‘ugly’ and ‘abysmal’.
Congressional leaders even admitted Biden’s debate performance where he meandered and struggled to finish sentences was bad.
But publicly they are standing behind their man, who is refusing to drop out and has even committed to a second debate with Trump in September.
First Lady Jill Biden, who helped her husband off the stage after his CNN calamity, wore a dress covered in the word ‘vote’ and defended his debate performance.
First Lady Jill Biden, who helped her husband off the stage after his CNN calamity, wore a dress covered in the word ‘vote’ and defended his debate performance
A devastating DailyMail.com snap poll of the debate found that a clear majority of independent voters believe Biden should no longer be the nominee.
Some 62 percent said he should be dumped from the ticket.
Biden looked all of his 81 years on Thursday night as he repeatedly lost his train of thought and meandered into silence.
Trump, 78, was able to land his punches while his Democratic opponent struggled to push back on some of his more outlandish claims.
J.L. Partners polled 805 independent voters immediately after the 90-minute clash, and found that 68 percent said the former president won out over his White House successor.