But the president’s abject debate performance and defiance in the aftermath have badly weakened his standing in a party already unenthusiastic about his campaign.
Any slip ups or confusion would rip off the fragile patch Biden has fixed on the dam of Democratic Party support.
Biden needs one of his classic comebacks more than everStill, it’s too early to count Biden out.
“We concluded that Joe Biden is old; we found out, and the polling came back that he’s old,” Fetterman told CNN.
Many of the CBC’s members are in solid blue districts and may be under less pressure than frontline Democrats who have criticized the president’s debate performance.
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