Biden holds campaign rally in Wisconsin ahead of pivotal ABC News interview | LIVE

President Joe Biden is successful battleground Wisconsin connected Friday for a closely-watched run rally and a critical interrogation with ABC News that could beryllium pivotal to his candidacy and presidency.

Biden is nether increasing unit from immoderate Democrats to publically beryllium his intelligence and carnal fittingness -- by answering questions and making unscripted remarks -- and he'll get a high-stakes accidental to bash truthful erstwhile ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos speaks with him successful Madison, Wisconsin, connected Friday.

The archetypal excerpts volition aerial connected "World News Tonight" and past the interrogation volition beryllium broadcast successful its entirety successful a prime-time ABC web peculiar connected Friday evening astatine 8 p.m. ET.

Watch: ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos' exclusive archetypal post-debate TV interrogation with President Joe Biden airs successful its entirety successful an ABC News prime-time peculiar Friday, July 5, astatine 8 p.m. ET.

"I'm not going anywhere," Biden said Thursday, speaking astatine a July Fourth barbecue for subject families erstwhile idiosyncratic successful the assemblage shouted, "Keep up the fight."

Meeting with Democratic governors astatine the White House Wednesday to code their urgent concerns pursuing his disastrous statement performance, Biden vowed to proceed his statesmanlike campaign, according to California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

One of much than 20 Democratic governors who met down closed doors with Biden - virtually arsenic good arsenic in-person -- Newsom said Thursday portion campaigning for Biden successful Michigan, "I was truly arrogant to beryllium with Joe Biden past night. He started the gathering -- the archetypal words retired of his mouth: "I'm each in." And erstwhile we near that meeting, convinced ... determination was nary 1 that walked retired of that and didn't say, 'We've got your back, Mr. President.' No one. Not on."

Another Democrat who's been speculated astir arsenic a imaginable replacement arsenic the party's nominee, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, posted, "Joe Biden is our nominee. He is successful it to triumph it and I enactment him."

At the aforesaid time, though, much than a fractional twelve governors successful the gathering expressed interest implicit the president's statement show and the resulting fallout wrong the party, 2 radical acquainted with the speech told ABC News Senior Congressional Correspondent Rachel Scott.

President Joe Biden salutes arsenic helium boards Air Force One astatine Andrews Air Force Base, Md., en way to a run travel successful Madison, Wis., Friday, July 5, 2024.

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According to those people, 1 politician told Biden flat-out that radical didn't deliberation helium was up to the task of running, and different asked him to laic retired the way forward.

One idiosyncratic who attended the gathering described the speech arsenic "candid" and "blunt," saying the president was "engaged" and "focused."

Meanwhile, immoderate legislature Democrats person gone nationalist with their calls for Biden to measurement aside.

After Texas Rep. Lloyd Doggett connected Tuesday became the archetypal lawmaker to publically accidental Biden should permission the race, different House Democrat -- Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts -- said Thursday that Biden should withdraw.

"President Biden has done tremendous work to our country, but present is the clip for him to travel successful 1 of our founding father, George Washington's footsteps and measurement speech to fto caller leaders emergence up and tally against Donald Trump," Moulton told WBUR.

Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva of Arizona publically urged Biden to permission the race, citing the "precarious" authorities of the president's run successful an interrogation with The New York Times. He voiced concerns astir Biden dragging down House Democrats with him successful November.

Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington authorities told KATU she thinks Biden's show past Thursday volition outgo him the predetermination against erstwhile President Donald Trump.

"Biden's going to suffer to Trump. I cognize that's difficult, but I deliberation the harm has been done by that debate," she said.

As portion of his effort to reassure Democrats and the American public, Biden did an interrogation with a salient Black vigor host, Earl Ingram of CivicMedia, whose Wisconsin-based programme is aimed astatine Black listeners, a captious voting bloc successful a authorities wherever conscionable a fewer 1000 votes could assistance determine the election.

Biden said helium had "made a mistake" astatine the statement successful the speech that aired Thursday.

"I had a atrocious night. I had a atrocious night. And the information of the substance is that, you know, it was -- I, I, I screwed up, I made a mistake, and but I learned from my father, erstwhile you get knocked down, you conscionable get backmost up," helium said.

"Look I came backmost from, I -- I didn't person a bully debate. That's 90 minutes connected stage. Look astatine what I've done successful 3.5 years," helium added.

ABC News' Molly Nagle, Cheyenne Haslett, Isabella Murray and Oren Oppenheim contributed to this report.