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A number of polls and pundits say Joe Biden should exit the race against Donald Trump after his debate debacle and ensuing fallout, but the President of the United States says he's truly in it to win it. "I have one job, and that's to beat Donald Trump," the 81-year-old incumbent told a conference…

"Every day I have that test," insisted Joe Biden tonight on ABC of the calls for the president taking a cognitive test . "Not only am I campaigning, but I’m running the world, and that's not hyperbole." The president was speaking to George Stephanopoulos in a damage control interview that aired in…

It probably won't be Lincoln vs Douglas, but another debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump could be in the cards. As the 81-year-old Biden gives a much anticipated and delayed campaign speech right now in an effort to contain the spreading blast radius from his debate debacle of last week, the…

The White House's calibrated plan to convince Americans that Joe Biden is up to another bid for the presidency just hit the hard wall of reality. Originally scheduled to emerge in dribs and drabs through the week and weekend, Biden's sit-down with George Stephanopoulos will now air in its entirety in…

Joe Biden blamed his bad debate performance last week on a busy travel schedule in the weeks leading up to the matchup with Donald Trump. At a fundraiser tonight in McLean, VA, Biden said that he “wasn’t very smart” for “traveling around the world a couple of times” before the debate, according to a…

EXCLUSIVE: Joe Biden's reelection campaign tried once again today to calm the nerves of Hollywood donors over the president's terrible debate performance last week against Donald Trump. “Every president in my lifetime has had a shitty first debate” campaign chair Jennifer O'Malley Dillon told the…

EXCLUSIVE and UPDATED: "Why isn't Joe Biden on 60 Minutes tonight? Why wasn’t he on Meet the Press this morning?” Those are the questions an exasperated top Hollywood donor had Sunday as the blast radius from the president's disastrous June 27 debate performance continued to expand despite the White…

UPDATED: The White House is pushing back on an NBC News report that Joe Biden is planning to discuss the future of his campaign with family members at Camp David on Sunday, following the fallout from the president’s debate performance against Donald Trump. The network, quoting five unnamed sources, re…

EXCLUSIVE: Joe Biden's reelection campaign has a problem with some of its top donors after last night’s debate fiasco, and they may have just made it worse. To mollify the agitation and quell a "cooling," as one insider put it, among some of the most generous entertainment industry donors on both…

"Mr. Biden is not the man he was four years ago," the New York Times said today in the understatement of the moment as it a called for the incumbent to bow out of this year's race against Donald Trump before it's too late. "The president appeared on Thursday night as the shadow of a great public…

Former President Donald Trump, in his first rally since the presidential debate on Thursday, continued to go after Joe Biden as a bit of a master political manipulator even as much of the post-event focus has been on the president’s feeble performance. “Despite the fact that crooked Joe Biden has…

Former President Barack Obama weighed in Friday on President Joe Biden’s dismal debate performance the night before, offering a bit of perspective on the anxieties following his own listless showing in 2012. Obama wrote on X/Twitter, “Bad debate nights happen. Trust me, I know. But this election is…