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This comes as Biden faces calls from some Democrats to drop out of the race.
President Joe Biden is facing a critical point in his reelection bid as Democratic calls for him to exit the 2024 race continue to mount despite his efforts to shut them down.
A poor debate performance against Donald Trump in June reignited questions about Biden's age and fitness to carry out his campaign and serve another four years. Biden has defiantly insisted he is staying the course, telling lawmakers this week he is not going anywhere.
On July 11, Biden held his first news conference since the debate -- taking multiple questions about his political future.
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Debate over future of Biden's candidacy continues
After a day of closed-door Democratic meetings where lawmakers appeared to be absorbing the sober reality that Biden would stay as the party's presumptive nominee, new comments on Wednesday stirred fresh debate on Biden's viability and path forward.
First, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was noncommittal on whether she wanted Biden to continue to run despite Biden insisting repeatedly that he had decided to stay in the race.
"It's up to the president to decide if he is going to run," Pelosi said on MSNBC. "We're all encouraging him to make that decision because time is running short."
Then, George Clooney, in a stinging New York Times op-ed, said Biden should step aside.
"It's devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe 'big F-ing deal' Biden of 2010," Clooney wrote. "He wasn't even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate."