President Joe Biden managed to ease some concerns about his political future, though he also committed crucial gaffes, during a choreographed press conference Thursday night.
Two weeks after taking the debate stage against former President Donald Trump, Biden took questions at a high-stakes press conference while his political future remained in limbo.
Biden took the press conference stage just before 7:30 for a press conference that was initially set to begin at 5:30 p.m., before initially being delayed to 6:30 p.m. After giving an opening statement off a teleprompter, Biden told reporters that he had a list of who he was supposed to call on.
Moments after taking his first question, Biden confused Vice President Kamala Harris with Trump.
"I've gotten, more high, I got a more long range capacity as well as defensive capacity. And so our military is where, I'm following the advice of my commander in chief, my, my, my, the Chief of Staff of the military, as well as the secretary of defense and our intelligence people, and we're making a day to day basis on what they should and should, how far they should win. That's a logical thing to do." Amid the gaffes, Biden managed to address concerns that cannot manage late events or a demanding presidential schedule - something Democrats have voiced worry over when calling for the president to drop out of the race.
"I'm determined on running, but I think it's important that I lay fears by seeing let them see me out there, let me see them. You know, for the longest time it was, you know, Biden's not prepared to sit with us, unscripted. Biden's not prepared to in any way. And so what I'm doing is, I've been doing, I think we've done, over 20 major events, from Wisconsin to North Carolina to anyway, to demonstrate that I'm going out in the areas where you think we can win, where we can persuade people to move our way, or people already there," the president said, directly attacking criticisms that he can't talk without a teleprompter.
Some conservatives applauded the performance for being just good enough to keep a weak Biden in the race, while others pointed out that it was still below the bar for a president seeking another term.
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