Election 2024 live updates: Biden speaks at first press conference since Trump debate amid calls to drop out

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When asked about his fitness for office in 2024, President Biden responded by noting his administration's record of boosting the economy and union labor.

of Democrats have called on Biden to step aside from the presidential race. Four more House Democrats said today he should drop out.continues to tease the eventual announcement of his running mate, which he said will come shortly before or during next week's Republican National Convention.He wasn't interrupted by a reporter following up on a question, but rather a reporter who had opened a laptop. It started loudly playing an earlier question from the reporter.

Biden gave a lengthy answer about his administration’s record boosting the economy and boosting union labor in response to a question about whether he’s fit to serve a second term. The president did not correct himself like he did earlier in the day when he mistakenly called Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy"President Putin."Biden’s opening statement was meant to turn the page back to Trump after two weeks in which the political discourse has been dominated by Biden’s poor debate performance. The White House and Biden campaign are keenly aware of that, and this is their attempt to talk about some issues that would be major in any other news cycle.

His last was on Nov. 16 in Woodside, California, after his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.Hours before a high-stakes news conference aimed at dispelling concerns about his cognitive health, Biden appeared to confuse the leaders of Ukraine and Russia. "It’s concerning that the President can’t seem to get through a single event without making a mistake that could provide grist to the Trump attack machine," the group said in a statement."Now we’re all waiting on the edge of our seats to see if the President can do a press conference — the most basic bread and butter of politics."

Gluesenkamp Perez represents a district in southwest Washington that Trump won by more than 4 percentage points in 2020. She won her race in 2022, flipping the seat to the Democrats, byTrump has asked a state court judge to toss out his criminal conviction in New York, pointing to the Supreme Court’sWhile the effort to toss out the jury’s verdict most likely faces an uphill battle with Judge Juan Merchan, the last-ditch bid has already succeeded in getting Trump’s sentencing date postponed.

Zelenskky chuckled before he approached the podium, telling Biden"I’m better" than Putin, to which Biden answered,"You're a hell of a lot better."Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss Ukraine’s path to NATO membership and what a second Trump presidency could mean for the Russia-Ukraine war.

 

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