Ahead of a key interview and the Republican National Convention next week, President Biden has left the White House and is spending the weekend at his Delaware beach house, better known as the presidential retreat.
The president’s weekend in Rehoboth Beach, following a Friday night campaign stint in Michigan, was largely quiet as he acknowledged on Thursday that he needed to “pace himself” but argued for a more robust schedule ahead of the 2024 election.
Biden is expected to take part in two conference calls on Saturday with House Democrats — the New Democrat Coalition and the Congressional Progressive Caucus — but his schedule in Rehoboth on Saturday does not include any public events. The New Democrat Coalition, which has 13 Democrats calling on Biden to recuse himself from the 2024 presidential race, has called on Biden to recuse himself from the 2024 presidential race.
The president may reportedly attend a church service during his weekend trip.
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A source near the president’s vacation home in Sussex County, Delaware, told Fox News Digital that there has been little Secret Service activity since the president arrived in town on Friday evening. (Getty Images/Fox News)
Intermittent rain was expected throughout the day in Rehoboth Beach, where Biden remained hunkered down amid growing calls from members of his own party for him to drop out of the presidential race.
A source near the president’s vacation home in Sussex County, Delaware, told Fox News Digital that there had been little Secret Service activity since the president arrived in town on Friday evening.
When the president returns to work next week, he will be forced to shift gears and handle a series of high-profile interviews. Republican National ConventionIt will be held in Milwaukee from July 15th to the 18th.
Biden is scheduled to take part in a pre-recorded, one-on-one interview with “NBC Nightly News” host Lester Holt from Austin, Texas, on Monday. The interview, which will be the president’s second cable news appearance since last month’s fractious debate, will air in its entirety at 9 p.m. ET that day.
The president is also scheduled to take part in two more interviews next week. According to Dylan Byers:Senior Correspondent for PacNews.
Byers reported Thursday that Biden would give interviews to “black national media” on Tuesday during a conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and to “Latino national media” on Wednesday.
The interviews are part of Biden’s efforts to convince members of his own party and voters across the US who are concerned about his age and mental fitness that he can serve another four years in office. At the White House.
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Dark images from Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, showed roads closed and government vehicles parked in parking lots during the president’s weekend visit. (Fox News)
A majority of Americans want Biden to drop out of the race, including a majority of Biden’s own supporters. Thursday’s poll The news was released by ABC News and The Washington Post ahead of the press conference.
Sixty-seven percent of respondents said Biden should drop out of the race, and 85% said he is too old to serve a second term, while 60% said former President Trump is also too old to serve a second term, up from 44% in the spring of 2023.
Among Democrats and Voters Democratic leaning, Sixty-two percent said Biden should withdraw from the election, and even among self-described Biden supporters, 54% said he should withdraw.
But the polls have found Biden and Trump virtually tied, despite low voter approval ratings. Confidence in Biden, Forty-six percent said they would vote for the current president, while 47% said they would support Trump.
A total of 18 Democratic lawmakers have called on Biden to step down from the White House race.
President Biden during a campaign event in Detroit, Michigan, on July 12, 2024. (Emily Elconin/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Despite calls for him to withdraw from the race, Biden told supporters at a rally in Detroit on Friday that he’s “not going anywhere.”
“You made me your candidate, no one else. Not the media, not the pundits, not the insiders, not the donors. You, the voters. You made the decision, no one else. I’m not going anywhere,” he declared.
Fox News’ Chad Pergram and Anders Hagstrom contributed to this report.
