‘I’m on the horse’: Biden reaffirms presidential run despite calls to quit

The US President and presumptive Democratic Party nominee admitted he’s an 'old guy' but insisted that 'this is my job to get this done'.

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00:00President Joe Biden has reaffirmed he is still in the running for the upcoming U.S. presidential

00:07election and defended his rocky performance. In an interview, the presumptive Democratic

00:13nominee, whose checkered campaign has been dominated by verbal slip ups, said it's his

00:18job to get this done. I'm on the horse. Where are you, Ben? I've done 22 major events, thousands

00:25of people, overwhelming crowds, a lot happening. What I'm doing is going out and demonstrating

00:31to the American people that I'm in command of all my faculties, that I don't need notes,

00:37I don't need teleprompter, I can go out and answer any questions at all. And I stood there

00:43when NATO was in town, I stood there for an hour and answered questions. The U.S. president

00:48made headlines at the Washington NATO summit when he incorrectly referred to Ukrainian

00:54President Volodymyr Zelensky as Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Biden is expected to attend

01:00a convention this week to convince African-American and Latino voters, a key voting bloc, that

01:07he should remain in the White House.