President Biden is spending his weekend away from the White House at his Delaware seashore home, a widely known retreat for the president, ahead of high-stakes interviews and the Republican Party’s conference subsequent week.
Following a Friday night marketing campaign occasion in Michigan, the president’s weekend at Rehoboth Beach has been largely quiet after he acknowledged on Thursday that he wants to “pace” himself but insisted he ought to tackle a extra strong schedule ahead of the 2024 election.
Biden is anticipated to participate in two convention calls on Saturday with House Democrats – the New Dems Coalition and the Congressional Progressive Caucus – however has no public occasions on his Saturday Rehoboth schedule. Thirteen Democrats in the New Dems Coalition have referred to as for Biden to step apart in the 2024 race.
It has been reported that the president may attend a church service throughout his weekend journey.
BIDEN TELLS MICHIGAN CROWD HE’S ‘NOT GOING ANYWHERE’ AMID CHANTS OF ‘DON’T YOU QUIT’
Sources close to the president’s trip house in Sussex County, Delaware, instructed Fox News Digital there was little motion by the Secret Service because the president’s arrival in city Friday night. (Getty Images/Fox News)
With sporadic rain anticipated for the rest of the day in Rehoboth Beach, Biden remained hunkered down amid rising calls from members of his personal occasion to withdraw from the race for the White House.
Sources close to the president’s trip house in Sussex County, Delaware, instructed Fox News Digital there was little motion by the Secret Service because the president’s arrival in city Friday night.
When the president returns to work subsequent week, he will probably be pressured to shift gears for a sequence of further high-stakes interviews amid the Republican National Convention, which is going down in Milwaukee from July 15 to 18.
Biden is slated to participate in a taped, one-on-one interview with “NBC Nightly News” anchor Lester Holt on Monday from Austin, Texas. That interview, which can mark the president’s second cable information look since his rocky debate final month, will air in its entirety at 9 p.m. ET the identical day.
The president can even participate in two further interviews subsequent week, according to Dylan Byers, a senior correspondent for Puck News.
Byers reported Thursday that Biden would participate in a Tuesday interview with a “Black national media outlet” throughout the NAACP Conference, and one other on Wednesday with a “Latino national media outlet.”
Those interviews will come as Biden continues his try to persuade members of his personal occasion, in addition to voters from completely different corners of America who’ve considerations about his age and psychological acuity, that he’s up to the duty of 4 extra years in the White House.
Images from gloomy Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, present highway closures amid the president’s weekend go to and a car parking zone staged with authorities automobiles. (Fox News)
A big majority of Americans need Biden to drop out of the race, together with a majority of his personal supporters, in accordance to a Thursday poll from ABC News and the Washington Post that was launched ahead of his press convention.
A full 67% of respondents stated Biden ought to drop out of the race, and 85% say he’s too outdated to serve out a second time period. Meanwhile, 60% of respondents additionally stated former President Trump is just too outdated for a second time period, up from 44% in the spring of 2023.
Among Democrats and voters who stated they lean Democratic, 62% stated Biden wants to drop out of the race. Even amongst self-professed Biden supporters, 54% stated he wants to drop out.
However, the ballot discovered that Biden and Trump are just about tied, regardless of voters’ lack of confidence in Biden, with 46% saying they might vote for the present president and 47% saying they help Trump.
A complete of 18 elected Democrats have referred to as on Biden to step apart in the White House race.
President Biden throughout a marketing campaign occasion in Detroit, Michigan, on July 12, 2024. (Emily Elconin/Bloomberg by way of Getty Images)
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
Despite the requires him to withdraw from the race, Biden instructed supporters at his Detroit rally on Friday that he’s “not going anywhere.”
“You made me the nominee, no one else. Not the press, not the pundits, not the insiders, not donors — you the voters. You decided, no one else, and I’m not going anywhere,” he declared.
Fox News’ Chad Pergram and Anders Hagstrom contributed to this report.
