U.S. Politics

President Biden dismissed concerns about his age, his mental acuity and polls showing him losing his re-election bid.

Respectfully but firmly, the ABC anchor pressed President Biden on the basic questions that Americans had asked themselves over the past week.

The conversation between the president and George Stephanopoulos lasted about 20 minutes and aired Friday night.

“Every day I have that test. Everything I do,” President Biden said in his ABC News interview. “Not only am I campaigning, but I’m running the world.”

In his first television interview since the debate, President Biden tried to reassure supporters, but he spent much of the interview resisting questions about his capabilities.

“I tell you, he looked a whole lot better than the debate,” said one voter in Detroit.

The House minority leader scheduled a virtual meeting for Sunday.

Plans for a late July fund-raiser in Wisconsin are now off, and it’s unclear whether another event in Texas will proceed, following President Biden’s disastrous debate performance.

While some House Democrats have been outspoken about the president’s debate performance, most senators have so far been quieter about their concerns.

The former president’s lawyers asked to freeze nearly all proceedings while they sort out whether the Supreme Court decision applies to charges focused on actions after he left the White House.