Biden’s Press Conference Won’t Stem Tide of Defections

“The president spoke for nearly an hour, answering questions off the top of his head, making some minor flubs but mostly seeming like a thoroughly different person than the candidate who appeared at the debate two weeks ago. Yet by the time he took the stage Thursday, it might already have been too late,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“President Biden’s Thursday evening press conference, hotly awaited as a potential opportunity to once again fall on his face, didn’t offer his doubters that satisfaction. But nor did it seem likely to quiet his party’s growing clamor for him to quit the re-election race that he insisted he remained best-positioned to win.”

Punchbowl News: “Yet the main takeaway from Biden’s nearly hour-long news conference is that it buys him some more time.”

Molly Ball: This performance won’t stem the tide of defections.