Biden Holds Solo Press Conference Amid Calls to Exit Presidential Race

President Joe Biden is set to field questions from the press amid growing concerns about his viability as the presumptive Democratic nominee.

Thursday’s press conference, which is expected to start at 6:30 pm ET, marks POTUS’ first solo press conference in seven months. You can watch a livestream above.

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Following his poor showing at the June 27 presidential debate, Biden sat down for a high-profile interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos. He acknowledged that he had a “bad episode” that night, but insisted that it was not indicative of something more serious.

Alas, his primetime performance did little to quell concerns about his candidacy. On Wednesday, George Clooney, who in June co-hosted a $28 million fundraiser for Biden, penned an op-ed for The New York Times declaring that Democrats need a new candidate.

“It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago… was not the Joe ‘big F-ing deal’ Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate,” Clooney wrote. “We are not going to win in November with this president.”

Hours later, Sen. Peter Welch of Vermont became the first Senate Democrat to call for Biden to bow out of the race.

Biden, however, has insisted that he is not going anywhere. In a letter sent to Democrats on Capitol Hill earlier this week, the president wrote that, “despite all the speculation in the press and elsewhere, I am firmly committed to staying in this race, to running this race to the end, and to beating Donald Trump.”

Thursday’s press conference comes as Biden closes out a NATO summit in Washington, D.C. It will be followed by another high-profile TV interview: POTUS is scheduled to sit down with NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt for a primetime special on Monday, July 15 (NBC, 9/8c).

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