Joe Biden press conference live: Joe Biden faces growing calls to drop out of 2024 Presidential race

Biden introduced Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arsenic President Putin astatine a gathering astir the Ukraine Compact astatine the NATO acme Thursday evening.

"Ladies and gentlemen, President Putin," President Biden said. "President Putin? He's going to bushed President Putin. President Zelenskyy. I'm truthful focused connected beating Putin, we've got to interest astir it. Anyway, Mr. President."

Zelenskyy laughed disconnected the gaffe.

"I'm better," Zelenskyy said arsenic helium walked up to the podium.

"You are a hellhole of a batch better," Biden replied.

The speech came soon earlier Biden was scheduled to clasp his archetypal solo quality league since the statesmanlike debate.

Hawaii Democratic Rep. Ed Case and Arizona Democratic Rep. Greg Stanton became the 12th and 13th House Democrats to telephone connected President Joe Biden to measurement aside.

"I bash not judge President Biden should proceed his candidacy for re-election arsenic President," Rep. Chase said successful a statement. "This has thing to bash with his quality and record. If it did, determination would beryllium nary determination to make. This is solely astir the future, astir the President's quality to proceed successful the astir hard occupation successful the satellite for different four-year term."

FILE - U.S. Rep. Greg Stanton, D-Ariz., speaks astatine the Capitol, Thursday, April 6, 2023, successful Phoenix.

In a statement, Rep. Stanton said Biden was "a fierce defender of American democracy," but called Trump an "existential menace to our Constitution and the regularisation of law."

"The Democratic Party indispensable person a nominee who tin efficaciously marque the lawsuit against Trump, and person the assurance of the American radical to grip the rigors of the hardest occupation connected the satellite for the adjacent 4 years," Stanton said. "For the involvement of American democracy, and to proceed to marque advancement connected our shared priorities, I judge it is clip for the President to measurement speech arsenic our nominee."

Rep. Brad Schneider, D-IL, calls connected President Joe Biden to measurement speech from the 2024 Presidential race.

The congressman is the 11th House Democrat to publically telephone for Biden to permission the race.

"The clip has come, however, for President Biden to heroically walk the torch to a caller procreation of enactment to usher america to the aboriginal helium has enabled and empowered america to pursue," Schneider says successful a lengthy statement.

Schneider is the vice seat of the New Democrat Coalition.

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Biden's high-stakes property quality scheduled for Thursday nighttime is his archetypal ceremonial solo quality league since November 2023.

The president's past akin outing came astir 8 months agone erstwhile helium took questions from reporters aft his acme with Chinese President Xi Jinping successful California.

At that quality conference, Biden called connected reporters from 4 organizations, 1 of whom asked 2 questions.

White House property caput Karine Jean-Pierre jumped successful to extremity the quality league aft the 4th reporter, though Biden proceeded to reply an further 9 questions.

Biden's astir caller associated quality league was during the G7 acme past month.