President Joe Biden‘s campaign quipped that the president has been making verbal missteps his entire career when quizzed on mistakes he made during the 75th NATO summit.

“Joe Biden has been making gaffes for 40 years. He made a couple last night. He’ll probably continue to do so,” Biden campaign communications director Michael Tyler told reporters Friday. “Our opponent is somebody who recently out on the stump called for a bloodbath if he loses, is pledging to rule as a dictator on day one, and pledging to ban abortion nationwide across the country.”

“If voters watched the totality of that press conference, they saw the president lead on the global stage, talk about complex issues, the ways in which he has rallied [the] West after Putin’s invasion, the ways in which he has been working on securing a ceasefire framework in the Middle East,” he said. “They saw him present a clear choice against the opponent, Donald Trump, who just laid out all the fundamental threats he poses to the American people.”

The Biden campaign surprised critics this week when it circulated on social media a video clip of Biden confusing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with Russian President Vladimir Putin before correcting himself.

Former White House and 2020 Biden campaign communications director Kate Bedingfield defended her successors’ decision, contending the clip provided context.

“BECAUSE IT FULLY CAPTURES THAT HE CORRECTED HIMSELF AND JOKED ABOUT IT,” Bedingfield posted on X. “I understand the increased scrutiny on his performance; I do not understand treating this obvious misspeak like a five alarm fire.”

“Look, I wouldn’t have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president did I think she was not qualified to be president,” he said.

Trump immediately mocked Biden for the misidentification, writing online that the president did a “great job.”

When asked as he was departing the press conference for his response, Biden flipped his typically “watch me” reaction.

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“Watch him,” he said.

Biden is on the campaign trail in Michigan on Friday before traveling to Texas on Monday, where he will be interviewed by NBC’s Lester Holt, and Nevada on Tuesday and Wednesday. Despite his steadier performance during his press conference compared to last month’s shaky debate, another House Democrat, Rep. Mike Levin (D-CA), told the president he should step down as the party’s nominee.

President Joe Biden reiterated his intention to remain in the 2024 race during his highly anticipated press conference on the sidelines of the 75th NATO summit, but his nearly hourlong performance failed to stop defections from his party.

Although his strongest moments from the press conference were foreign policy related, it is the questions that linger regarding his political strength domestically against former President Donald Trump before November’s election that had another House Democrat, Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT), immediately add his voice to the chorus of members of his own party calling on him to step down as their nominee at its conclusion. He was quickly followed by Reps. Scott Peters (D-CA) and Eric Sorensen (D-IL) urging Biden, 81, to end his reelection campaign.

Despite repeating that he would seek reelection, Biden was candid about having to prove himself to Democrats by making more unscripted appearances and taking part in fewer stage-managed events during the White House dubbed “big boy” press conference at the Walter E. Washington Center in downtown Washington, D.C. But he also called on a preapproved list of 11 reporters, who peppered him with questions about his political future to the future of Russia’s war against Ukraine, at times having trouble reading from that list.

Biden’s response to the opening question, a query from Reuters about whether Vice President Kamala Harris could succeed him, was quickly seized on by Trump and his team after the incumbent confused his No. 2 with his Republican opponent.

“Look, I wouldn’t have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president if she was not qualified to be president,” Biden told reporters. “There’s a long way to go in this campaign, and I’m going to keep moving.”

The second question mentioned a similar mistake he made earlier in the day when he confused Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin during the launch of the Ukraine Compact.

Biden underscored that he was running for president again not for his legacy but because he wanted to “complete the job” he embarked on almost four years ago. He then dismissed a question about reports he told Democratic governors last week he would try to end his public schedule by 8 p.m. before downplaying the need to take a cognitive test after seeing his neurologist in February.

“That’s not true; what I said was, instead of my every day starting at 7 and going to bed at midnight, it could be smarter for me to pace myself a little more,” the president said of the report. “By the way, I love my staff, but they add things. They add things all the time. They’re catching hell from my wife.”

“Where’s Trump been? Riding around on his golf cart and filling out his scorecard before he hits his ball?” he added.

Biden criticized Trump, too, during his opening remarks, which he read from a teleprompter, stumbling over “Kyiv” when alluding to Ukraine and clearing his throat multiple times.

“For those who thought NATO’s time had passed, they got a rude awakening with Putin invaded Ukraine,” Biden said, adding Trump “had made it clear he has no commitment to NATO” nor an “obligation to honor Article 5.”

“America cannot retreat from the world,” he continued. “It must lead the world. We are the indispensable nation, as Madeleine Albright wrote.”

Democratic responses to the press conference were tepid, though expectations were lowered by Biden’s debate last month that triggered the power struggle.

Former Democratic Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan, who was among the first to call for Biden to step down, said his performance had moments of coherence and incoherence.

“[Biden] added fuel to the fire with calling Zelensky ‘Putin’ and Harris ‘Trump.’ That will dominate media and be in ads with a billion dollars behind them,” Ryan told the Washington Examiner. “All in all, he made matters much worse, not better. … He gave them a lot more ammunition.”

For onetime Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) staffer Christopher Hahn, Biden “was clearly better at the press conference compared with the debate,” but he did not believe it changed “the minds of those concerned about his ability to wage a campaign and serve another four years.”

Democratic strategist Stefan Hankin added the press conference was “OK” but “certainly not great.”

The press conference became a pressure test for Biden’s leadership after Democrats, including those in Congress, urged the president to prove himself after the Atlanta debate. An interview last week with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, who has since personally expressed doubts about Biden, only exacerbated concerns after the president became defensive and defiant, denying he was behind Trump in the polls and that members of his own party were imploring him to step down. He has another interview booked with NBC’s Lester Holt while he is in Texas on Monday, scheduled to air during the first night of the Republican National Committee, this cycle in Milwaukee.

With at least 17 congressional Democrats now calling for Biden to step down and longtime Biden White House and now campaign advisers Mike Donilon, Steve Donilon, and Jen O’Malley Dillon unable to convince wavering Democrats in the other chamber with a briefing Thursday, the president’s path forward is unclear. Only Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT) has encouraged Biden to step down on his side of the Capitol.

Although the sit-down “allayed” some concerns of senators, such as Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), it “deepened others,” according to the chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

“I need more of the kind of analytics that show the path to success,” Blumenthal told reporters. “Joe Biden has to go to the American people — not just in one meeting, one press conference, one speech — but consistently and constantly. Tonight will be important. The press conference will be potentially a turning point.”

The Biden campaign had earlier tried to address that specific complaint, circulating a memo that explained Biden’s “clearest” path back to the White House as being through the so-called blue wall of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. But that path has become less clear since the debate, with polls emphasising those states are within the margin of error.

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“In addition to what we believe is a clear pathway ahead for us, there is also no indication that anyone else would outperform the president vs. Trump,” O’Malley Dillon, the campaign chairwoman, wrote with campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez on Thursday. “Hypothetical polling of alternative nominees will always be unreliable, and surveys do not take into account the negative media environment that any Democratic nominee will encounter. The only Democratic candidate for whom this is already baked in is President Biden.”

Biden is expected to travel to Michigan on Friday before heading to Nevada and Texas next week.

After a bitter Republican primary, former President Donald Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) will present a public united front next week at the GOP convention in Milwaukee.

“We’ve consistently been told we would have a speaking slot at the convention and have not been told differently,” a senior DeSantis official told the Washington Examiner.

The expectation for a speaking slot came after reporting that DeSantis had been passed over, though the DeSantis official called those earlier reports incorrect.

DeSantis endorsed Trump when he suspended his presidential campaign in January after the Iowa caucuses but before the New Hampshire primary, but the pair did not speak until April. Thanks to Steve Witkoff, a real estate mogul and mutual friend, the men had breakfast at Witkoff’s Shell Bay Club in Hallandale Beach, Florida, at the governor’s request.

“I am very happy to have the full and enthusiastic support of Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida,” Trump wrote on social media at the time. “The conversation mostly concerned how we would work closely together to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. Also discussed was the future of Florida, which is FANTASTIC! I greatly appreciate Ron’s support in taking back our Country from the Worst President in the History of the United States. November 5th is a BIG DAY!!!”

DeSantis had told supporters in March he would also help raise money for Trump after criticizing Republicans who kowtowed to the former president on the eve of the Iowa caucuses.

Confirmation of DeSantis’ appearance at the convention comes after former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, another primary opponent, disclosed that she had not been invited to the event, despite releasing her 97 delegates and encouraging them to nominate Trump.

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“The nominating convention is a time for Republican unity,” Haley told the Washington Examiner. “Joe Biden is not competent to serve a second term and Kamala Harris would be a disaster for America. We need a president who will hold our enemies to account, secure our border, cut our debt, and get our economy back on track. I encourage my delegates to support Donald Trump next week in Milwaukee.”

 “She was not invited, and she’s fine with that,” Haley spokeswoman Chaney Denton added. “Trump deserves the convention he wants. She’s made it clear she’s voting for him and wishes him the best.”

Marisa Schultz and Samantha-Jo Roth contributed to this report.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre defended her credibility as the Biden administration fields questions about President Joe Biden‘s health after his first debate against former President Donald Trump.

After Monday’s contentious briefing sparked by reports a Parkinson’s disease specialist had visited the White House multiple times, Jean-Pierre underscored her commitment to providing the best possible information she can to reporters. The White House circulated a letter late Monday from Biden’s physician, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, about the neurologist, Dr. Kevin Cannard, specifying he was Biden’s attending brain specialist but had not come to the executive campus for the president.

“This is the second time in less than a week where the briefing had prompted a need for later clarification on questions about the president’s health,” a reporter said Tuesday.

“I disagree,” Jean-Pierre interrupted. “A lot of the things that I said right here in this briefing room … it’s in the letter.

“I actually even said here at the podium, if there was more information that we could provide, we would do that,” she said. “And we did, but many of the things that I said right here is in the letter.”

Jean-Pierre was also needled on whether she needed to clarify any other comments she has made in her capacity as press secretary regarding Biden’s health, specifically last year when the president looked for the late Indiana Republican Rep. Jackie Walorski and last month when he did not attend a late sideline G7 leaders summit event.

“I would not,” the press secretary said, adding that “it has been an unprecedented time” and Biden is “ready” and “on fire.”

“He wants to get out there and continue to show that he has more work to do,” she continued. “I know sometimes you guys don’t believe us, but he does want to engage with you. He does want to talk more to the press.”

Jean-Pierre had earlier opened Tuesday’s briefing by apologizing for its one-and-a-half-hour delay, attributing her tardiness to a meeting with Biden in the Oval Office about Hurricane Beryl.

“He knows it’s important to the people of Texas, so he wanted to make sure before I came out here, I had all information,” she said.

Jean-Pierre had frustrated reporters on Monday after she declined to confirm whether Cannard had come to the White House despite his name appearing on public visitor logs. She also declined to explain the nature of his visits.

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“I am not sharing, confirming names from here,” she said. “It is a security reason. I am not going to do that. … It doesn’t matter how hard you push me. It doesn’t matter how angry you get with me. I am not going to confirm a name. It doesn’t matter if it’s even in the log. I am not going to do that from here. That is not something I am going to do.”

Last week, Jean-Pierre had to clarify that Biden had a “verbal check-in” with O’Connor after the debate and not a checkup as he told Democratic governors during a meeting to discuss his health as other elected Democrats call on him to step down as their party’s nominee before November’s election against Trump. Shortly beforehand, Jean-Pierre had denied that either one had taken place.

President Joe Biden stepped onto the world stage when he addressed the opening ceremony of the 75th NATO summit as Democrats reconsider him as their nominee this election cycle.

Using the trappings of the presidency, Biden contrasted himself to former President Donald Trump during his remarks, which were delivered from a teleprompter. But he also borrowed from his predecessor’s political playbook by awarding a surprised outgoing NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg the country’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

“This moment in history calls to our collective strength,” Biden told the crowd Tuesday. “Autocrats have overturned global order. Terrorist groups continue to plot evil schemes, cause mayhem and chaos and suffering. In Europe, [Russian President Vladimir] Putin‘s war of aggression against Ukraine continues.”

“Make no mistake: Ukraine can and will stop Putin,” he said to applause.

As he defends himself to Democrats, Biden also defended NATO amid concerns Trump could withdraw from the alliance should he be reelected. Trump has promised to remain in NATO as long as other members “play fair.”

To that end, Biden described NATO as being “stronger” than before with two additional members, Finland and Sweden, and with 23 spending at least 2% of their gross domestic product on defense.

In the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, where the Washington Treaty creating NATO was signed in 1949, Biden took the opportunity to thank Stoltenberg, who served an additional third term for 10 years in the role because of the Russia-Ukraine war.

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“I personally asked you to extend your service. Forgive me,” Biden said. “You put your own plans on hold. When Russia’s war on Ukraine began, you didn’t hesitate. Today, NATO is stronger, smarter, and more energized than when you began.”

Aside from Biden’s leadership challenge, the NATO summit agenda will be dominated by Ukraine. During his 15-minute speech, the president, who will meet with Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday, indicated the United States, along with Germany, Italy, Netherlands, and Romania, will provide the war-torn country with “dozens of additional tactical air defense systems.”

President Joe Biden will likely remain the presumptive 2024 Democratic nominee because he has an “ego,” former President Donald Trump said.

“It looks to me like he may very well stay in,” Trump told Fox News on Monday. “He’s got an ego and he doesn’t want to quit.”

“I think Jill would like to see him stay,” he said of first lady Jill Biden. “I noticed she really seems to be having a good time and I’m hearing that Hunter is calling the shots. So this isn’t necessarily a very positive thing for our country. But I think he, you know, might very well stay in.”

First son Hunter Biden was at the White House last week and was present as his father, the president, prepared to deliver an address on the Supreme Court‘s immunity decision.

Democrats have publicly pressured Joe Biden to reconsider his reelection campaign after last month’s opening debate against Trump, during which he lost his train of thought and appeared with his mouth agape.

Trump stated that “nobody wants to give [the presidency] up that way” and predicted that if Joe Biden does step down, he is “going to feel badly about himself for a long time.”

Trump described he and his campaign as being “prepared” for Joe Biden, though he also took the opportunity Monday to criticize Vice President Kamala Harris, who could replace the president if he does decide to stand aside. Trump contended that “she hasn’t done a good job on a lot of things.”

“We’re heading into World War III, in my opinion, with this man semi-running things because he’s not running things,” he said. “The people that surround the Oval Office, the people that surround the Resolute Desk, that beautiful Resolute Desk, they’re really running things in Washington.”

Regarding the debate, Trump recalled Joe Biden looking “pale” and having a “weak” voice, remembering it as a “strange” event “because, within a couple of minutes, the answers given by him were, they didn’t make a lot of sense.”

“They weren’t even answers,” he said. “They were just words put together, they had no meaning or sense.”

The Biden campaign countered that Trump’s interview was “low energy,” despite the former president not campaigning for the past 12 days.

“He is still a habitual liar, still a 34-time convicted criminal, still running on his Project 2025 agenda to destroy America, make himself a dictator on day one, rip away our rights, and raise costs on the middle class to give tax cuts to the wealthy and price-gouging corporations — and most importantly, still going to lose this November to Joe Biden,” Biden campaign spokesman James Singer wrote in a statement.

Trump has until next Monday, the first day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, to announce his vice presidential nominee. One week before that deadline, he conceded he has not made his “final decision.”

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“We wanted to see what they’re doing, to be honest, because, you know, it might make a difference,” Trump said of the Biden campaign. “I think probably within the next week, week and a half. Probably sometime, I’d love to do it during the convention.”

“I think everybody’s going to be very, very happy,” he added. “It’s got to be a great vice president, meaning a person that can do a fantastic job as president, because you always have to think of that first, and then second, somebody that helps you get elected, and there’s nothing wrong with that.”

In a rare letter, President Joe Biden‘s personal physician, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, has denied that a Parkinson’s specialist who has been to the White House eight times in the past year was on the executive campus to examine the president.

Dr. Kevin Cannard “regularly” visits the White House as part of its “general neurology practice,” O’Connor said in the letter, which was a response to widespread speculation earlier Monday about the reason for Cannard’s frequent appearances in visitor logs.

“Prior to the pandemic, and following its end, he has held regular neurology clinics at the White House Medical Clinic in support of the thousands of active-duty members assigned in support of White House operations,” the White House physician wrote Monday. “We value the contributions he has made across the many patients he has treated in support of the White House and its personnel over these years.”

But O’Connor did confirm Cannard is the neurologist who has examined Biden for his three presidential annual checkups.

“His findings have been made public each time I have released the results of the president’s annual physical,” O’Connor wrote. “President Biden has not seen a neurologist outside of his annual physical.”

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O’Connor’s letter was circulated among reporters by the White House after an at-times combative briefing with press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre earlier in the day. During her briefing, Jean-Pierre declined to confirm Cannard had even been on campus despite his name appearing on public visitor logs, citing security and privacy concerns.

Cannard’s White House visits were first reported after Biden’s opening debate against former President Donald Trump, in which the incumbent appeared to lose his train of thought and stood with his mouth agape. His performance has caused elected Democrats to discuss candidly whether he should remain the party’s nominee this cycle.

President Joe Biden‘s first post-debate interview was laden with a series of denials at odds with a candidate who is trying to convince his party that he is taking its concerns about his age and mental acuity seriously.

From his poll numbers to whether Democrats are calling on him to step down as their 2024 nominee after his debate, here are the Biden denials from his 22-minute sit down with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.

On his debate performance

Biden conceded he had a “bad night” during his debate against former President Donald Trump last week but described it as a “bad episode” not symptomatic of a more “serious condition.” While the president did not apportion blame to his aides, he did contend Trump bore some responsibility.

“Well, it came to me I was having a bad night when I realized that even when I was answering a question, even though they turned his mic off, he was still shouting,” he said. “I let it distract me. I — I’m not blaming it on that, but I realized that I just wasn’t in control.”

On whether being president has taken a toll and if he needs a cognitive test

Biden sidestepped Stephanopoulos when asked whether he was the same man as he was at the start of his administration and if he could continue in the role for another four years.

“In terms of successes, yes,” Biden said. “I also was the guy who put together a peace plan for the Middle East that may be coming to fruition. I was also the guy that expanded NATO. I was also the guy that grew the economy. All the individual things that were done were ideas I had or I fulfilled. I moved on.”

“Can I run the 100 in 10 flat? No. But I’m still in good shape,” he added before denying that he was more frail. “Watch me between — there’s a lot of time left in this campaign. There’s over 125 days.”

When Stephanopoulos followed up, Biden repeated that he was “the guy that put NATO together.”

“No one thought I could expand it. I’m the guy that shut Putin down,” Biden said of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Biden’s watch.

Of the potential of him taking an independent medical evaluation, which included neurological and cognitive tests, Biden argued that he undertakes similar tests “every day.”

“I have a cognitive test every single day,” he said. “Everything I do. You know, not only am I campaigning, but I’m running the world. Sounds like hyperbole, but we are the essential nation of the world.”

On his polls and his standing in the Democratic Party

Biden reiterated that he was not behind Trump in the polls despite the former president having advantages in national and battleground state polling.

“All the pollsters I talk to tell me it’s a toss-up,” he said.

Biden cited his crowd sizes when asked what his campaign’s strategy is to improve his prospects, with Stephanopoulos telling Biden no president has been reelected with his approval ratings.

“If you can be convinced that you cannot defeat Donald Trump, will you stand down?” Stephanopolous asked.

“If the Lord Almighty came down and said, ‘Joe, get out of the race,’ I’d get out of the race,” he responded. “The Lord Almighty’s not coming down.”

“I agree that the Lord Almighty’s not going to come down, but if — if — if you are told reliably from your allies, from your friends and supporters in the Democratic Party in the House and the Senate that they’re concerned you’re going to lose the House and the Senate if you stay in, what will you do?” Stephanopoulos added.

“I’m not going to answer that question,” he replied. “It’s not going to happen.”

On what happens next

Regardless of Biden’s denials, the president’s interview with Stephanopolous was preceded by Reps. Seth Moulton (D-MA) and Mike Quigley (D-IL), in addition to Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), encouraging him to step aside.

Although interviews have aided presidential candidates in the past, “his situation is markedly different from what other candidates have faced,” according to Rutgers University history, media studies, and journalism professor David Greenberg.

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“Bill and Hillary Clinton did an effective 60 Minutes interview with Steve Kroft that helped him during the 1992 campaign after the Gennifer Flowers scandal,” Greenberg told the Washington Examiner of the CBS program. “But Biden has to do much more than damage control. He has to convey a fundamentally different demeanor than he did in the debate, to the point where people really become convinced that Debate Biden was a wild aberration, a mega-outlier.”

“I’m convinced he’s sound enough to govern — and I think he’s governed well,” he said. “But it actually takes more energy and quickness to campaign than to govern, especially since he’ll have to surge ahead of Trump in the polls, mobilize turnout, and forcefully make the case both for Trump’s dangerousness and for his own vision.”

President Joe Biden declined to commit to undertake an independent cognitive test amid concerns about his age and mental acuity after his debate against former President Donald Trump.

“Look, I have a cognitive test every single day,” Biden told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos during his first post-debate interview. “Not only am I campaigning but I’m running the world.”

“Watch me between — there’s a lot of time left in this campaign,” he said.

Biden did concede he can no longer “run the 100 in 10 flat” but contended he is in “good shape” and dared the anchor to “come keep my schedule.”

“Well, I just think it cost me a really bad night — a bad run,” he said when asked about the toll his first four years in office has had on his body.

In an exchange about the debate, Biden distinguished the debate as a “bad episode” and not symptomatic of a “condition,” a question posed by former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).

“It was a bad episode,” he said. “No indication of any serious condition. I was exhausted. I didn’t listen to my instincts in terms of preparing and — and a bad night.”

When pressed on the downtime he had at Camp David after his trips to Europe, Biden repeated that he had been sick and was “feeling terrible.”

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“Matter of fact, the docs with me, I asked them,” he said. “They did a COVID test because we were trying to figure out what was wrong. They did a test to see whether or not I had some infection, you know, a virus. I didn’t. I just had a really bad cold.”

Biden added he did not “think” he watched the debate afterward, though he did not blame aides for his poor performance.

In his first sit-down interview after his debate last week against former President Donald Trump, President Joe Biden downplayed his performance as a “bad episode” as Democrats, such as former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), ask whether it was symptomatic of a condition.

“It was a bad episode. No indication of any serious condition. I was exhausted. I didn’t listen to my instincts in terms of preparing and — and a bad night,” Biden told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.

When pressed on the down time he had at Camp David after his trip to Europe, Biden repeated that he had been sick and was “feeling terrible.”

“Matter of fact, the docs with me, I asked them. They did a COVID test because we were trying to figure out what was wrong. They did a test to see whether or not I had some infection, you know, a virus. I didn’t,” he said. “I just had a really bad cold.”

Biden added he did not “think” he watched the debate afterward, though he did not blame aides for his poor performance.

Biden spoke with Stephanopoulos after appearing at a rally in Madison, Wisconsin, on Friday, in which he remained adamant he is “running and going to win again” despite calls from the likes of Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) to step down as the Democratic nominee before next month’s national convention in Chicago.

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“Some folks don’t seem to care who you voted for,” he told the crowd. “They’re trying to push me out of the race. Well, let me say this as clearly as I can: I’m staying in the race. I’ll beat Donald Trump.”

Meanwhile, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) is looking to assemble senators who are also calling on Biden to stand down as the Democratic standard-bearer, according to the Washington Post.