President Joe Biden will hold a news conference Thursday, the key event in a monumental week during which the Democratic incumbent is fending off calls for him to step aside as the party's presumptive nominee following a shaky debate performance. It's just the type of event that many political watchers have said Biden needs to pull off successfully to turn back demands — including from within his own party — that he withdraw from his reelection battle against presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump . Biden has argued that he had a singularly bad night in Atlanta and that it wasn't representative of his mental acuity.
A strong performance Thursday could convince members of his party that he still has the ability both to win in November and to serve a second term. A weak effort — or stumbles similar to his debate performances — could make the calls for him to withdraw grow much louder. Here are the details on what White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has referenced as Biden's “big boy” news conference: Biden is scheduled to take questions from the White House press corps no earlier than 7 p.
m. ET Thursday. It had initially been slated for 5:30 p.
m. and could begin even later than 7 p.m.
, depending on how events at NATO move along. Biden will be speaking from the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, a short distance from the White House, where many events of the ongoing NATO summit are being held.
The White House streams much of its live content. Giv.
