Biden says he 'screwed up' during presidential debate with Trump

(NewsNation) — President Joe Biden said helium "screwed up" portion debating erstwhile President Donald Trump past week. 

“I had a atrocious night," the president told Milwaukee vigor big Earl Ingram. "And the information of the substance is that I screwed up. I made a mistake."

He continued: "I learned from my father, erstwhile you get knocked down, you conscionable get backmost up," aboriginal adding: "I didn't person a bully debate. That’s 90 minutes onstage, look astatine what I’ve done successful 3 and a fractional years.”

The interrogation marked the archetypal clip Biden has addressed his widely criticized performance in an interrogation format since the debate. While facing disconnected against Trump, Biden stumbled done his words and appeared astatine times to beryllium confused. And although Trump made aggregate mendacious statements during the debate, Biden's property took halfway stage. 

Democrats sounded the alarm after the debate, reigniting concerns Biden whitethorn beryllium excessively aged to service different term. The president has tried recovering successful different nationalist appearances, but immoderate Democrats person started openly calling for him to measurement distant from the statesmanlike race. 

Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., said Democrats should see "all viable options" for the 2024 election.

“When your existent strategy isn’t working, it’s seldom the close determination to treble down. President Biden is not going to get younger,” the Democrat wrote Wednesday.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., suggested it would beryllium just for voters to question whether Biden has a information aft the debate. 

“I deliberation it’s a morganatic question to accidental is this an occurrence oregon is this a condition,” she told MSNBC. “And so, erstwhile radical inquire that question [it is] legitimate.”

The White House has been engaged pushing backmost against claims Biden is reasoning astir taking his chapeau retired of the ring. 

A recent study by the New York Times cited an state of the president who said Biden is weighing whether helium should bow retired of the 2024 election. The White House claims they were not fixed capable clip to respond to the story, with spokesperson Andrew Bates posting: "This assertion is perfectly mendacious and if we had been fixed much than 7 minutes we could person communicated this earlier it was publicized.”

In a fundraising email shared Thursday, the Biden run insisted the 81-year-old president isn't going anywhere.

"I'm the Democratic Party's nominee. No 1 is pushing maine out. I'm not leaving. I'm successful this contention to the end," a information of the email reads.

Biden's latest interview, which aired Thursday greeting on WAUK-AM, was recorded the aforesaid time much than 20 Democratic governors met with him some virtually and astatine the White House. Amid the increasing concerns implicit Biden's age, the tiny radical of Democratic governors pledged their enactment to the president. 

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, who is considered a rising prima successful the Democratic party, and whose sanction has been floated as a imaginable replacement for Biden, told reporters aft the gathering that the radical volition proceed to basal with the president. 

"The president has ever had our backs, we’re going to person his backmost arsenic well,” Moore said.

If Democrats do push to regenerate Biden at the enactment normal successful August, it could get complicated. Since the president faced nary meaningful challenges during the primaries, a bulk of authorities delegates are already pledged to enactment him. 

It's not a strict request for delegates to travel the superior results of their state, but it is expected that they correspond what voters want. If Biden takes himself disconnected the ticket, it's chartless what would hap with the delegates already pledged to him.

Initial post-debate polling shows Biden falling down Trump with 44.2% of polled voters supporting Trump and 43.3% backing Biden. 

NewsNation's Steph Whiteside and Kellie Meyer, on with The Hill contributed to this report.