He is holding his first post-debate news conference.
President Joe Biden is facing a critical point in his reelection bid as Democratic calls for him to exit the 2024 race continue to mount despite his efforts to shut them down.
A poor debate performance against Donald Trump reignited questions about Biden's age and fitness to carry out his campaign and serve another four years. Biden has defiantly insisted he is staying the course, telling lawmakers this week he is not going anywhere.
Thursday evening, Biden held his first post-debate news conference.
Biden said the best way to reassure anyone who is concerned about him having another "bad night" is "the way I assure myself and that is, 'Am I getting the job done.'"
The president said "there's no indication yet" that he's slowing down on that front.
Biden had explained his poor debate performance against Trump last month by saying he had a "bad night."
Asked whether the focus on his flubs and the pressure to drop out of the race has become damaging for the United States, Biden pushed back on the question.
"Have you seen a more successful conference?" he asked. "What do you think?"
Biden did not address the question, but he asserted that the just-concluded NATO summit was "the most successful conference I attended in a long time."
The president responded to a question about whether European allies should prepare for U.S. disengagement if Trump wins by contending that he has their support in the U.S. election.
"I'm not hearing my European allies coming up to me and saying, 'Joe, don't run,'" he said. "What I hear them saying is, 'You've got to win. Don't let this guy -- it would be a disaster.'"
Biden pointed out Trump has an "affinity to people who are authoritarian."
"That worries Europe. That worries Poland," he said.
Biden is denying that he previously said he needs to cut back on his schedule to get to bed by 8 p.m.
The president told reporters that, in previous conversations, what he meant was "it'd be smarter to pace myself a little bit."
He suggested that working from early in the morning until near midnight was probably not a great idea and suggested that evening fundraisers for his reelection campaign could begin an hour or two earlier going forward.
Biden also vowed that, ahead of his second debate with Trump in September, "I'm not going to be traveling 15 time zones."
"Pace myself. Pace myself," he said.
