The High-Energy Biden Missing At Thursday Night's Debate Shows Up In North Carolina
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Joe Biden vowed to “get back up” after acknowledging a weak performance against Donald Trump: “I don’t debate as well as I used to.”
Just hours after a disastrous debate performance that led to immediate calls to abandon his reelection campaign, President Joe Biden on Friday made clear that he had no intention of dropping out.
Biden held to a schedule that had been planned ahead of time, delivering a high-energy speech at a rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, before continuing on to New York City for a Friday night fundraiser, with three other fundraisers planned for Long Island and New Jersey on Saturday.
One Biden campaign official, speaking on condition of anonymity, had a two-word answer to the calls that he step aside: “Absolutely not.”
Biden did not address the issue directly at his rally, but referenced it after conceding that Thursday night’s CNN debate with former President Donald Trump had not gone well.
“I know, like millions of Americans know, when you get knocked down, you get back up,” he said to raucous cheers.