Scowling Biden, 81, struts stiffly out of Medal of Honor ceremony while sternly ignoring reporters’ questions about his declining health after debate fiasco

President Biden swiftly left the East Room of the White Home on Wednesday following the Medal of Honor ceremony, ignoring questions on his well being.

The embattled 81-year-old commander-in-chief has confronted mounting stress to withdraw his bid for reelection following a disastrous debate efficiency final week.

After bestowing the Medal of Honor to 2 Union troopers who fought through the Civil Struggle on the ceremony, he shortly headed for the exit whereas dodging questions. 

Regardless of a media scrum stationed close to the exit of the East Room, a scowling Biden regarded straight forward and ignored a barrage of questioning. 

On Wednesday, Biden assured marketing campaign employees on a name that regardless of mounting requires him to face down he stays within the 2024 race for the presidency. 

He stated: ‘Let me say this as clearly as I probably can as merely and easy as I can: I’m operating – nobody’s pushing me out. 

‘I am not leaving. I am on this race to the top and we will win.’

The reassurance comes after a New York Instances report that stated Biden advised a key he was contemplating ending his reelection bid. 

‘He is aware of if he has two extra occasions like that, we’re in a unique place’ by the top of the weekend, the ally stated in reference to the talk efficiency and upcoming occasions for the president. 

The White Home denied the report with Biden’s deputy press secretary Andrew Bates writing on X: ‘That declare is totally false. If the New York Instances had supplied us with greater than 7 minutes to remark we’d have advised them so.’

White Home Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre additionally advised reporters throughout her briefing on Wednesday that Biden is just not getting ready to exit the race.

Jean-Pierre, spent the very best a part of an hour being grilled on the President’s well being and confirmed that whereas he nonetheless has a chilly, he hasn’t seen a physician.

Jean-Pierre claimed ‘jet lag’ from his two back-to-back worldwide journeys 12 days earlier than the talk contributed to the president’s poor displaying.

She additionally confirmed Biden hasn’t had a medical examination since February.

New ballot exhibits Donald Trump three factors forward on common in all seven swing states after the talk with Joe Biden final week

Biden himself even admitted that he practically dozed off on stage throughout a fundraiser within the ritzy D.C. suburb of McLean, Virginia Tuesday evening.

He advised the gang he ‘wasn’t very good’ for ‘touring all over the world a pair occasions’ earlier than his televised showdown with former President Donald Trump.

Biden did back-to-back journeys to France for a D-Day anniversary celebration after which onto Italy for the G7 in June.

Upon his return, the president took a vacation at his trip dwelling in Rehoboth Seaside, Delaware.

Then Biden spent an entire week on the presidential retreat Camp David resting and getting ready for the talk.

The New York Instances reported Tuesday that Biden was so drained from the jet-setting that advisers minimize debate prep quick by two days – with the intention to match within the seashore journey.

Whereas at Camp David, debate prep did not begin earlier than 11 a.m. and Biden was given time every day within the afternoon to take a nap.

The president made the clear on the Tuesday marketing campaign occasion his journey is ‘not an excuse however an evidence.’

President Joe Biden speaks throughout a Medal of Honor Ceremony on the White Home in Washington, Wednesday, July 3, 2024

Biden is holding the annual Independence Day celebration on the White Home on Thursday and touring to Madison, Wisconsin on Friday the place he’ll sit down with ABC Information for his first post-debate interview.

The President will then head to a marketing campaign cease in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Sunday.

Each Wisconsin and Pennsylvania are key swing states that may assist decide the result of the 2024 race. 

In these states and the 5 different battlegrounds, Trump has pulled forward in polling following their debate in Atlanta, Georgia on Thursday, June 27.

Because the debate, Biden and his workforce have carried out widespread harm management and reached out to reassure celebration members, employees, lawmakers, donors, allies and voters that Biden continues to be a viable candidate that may beat Trump once more.

However many inside the celebration are in search of different choices and are floating these like Vice President Kamala Harris, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

None are capable of beat Trump in nationwide and battleground state polling and all fall behind Biden in his probabilities of profitable towards the previous president.