By Maria Ortiz
11 Jul 2024, 18:53 PM EDT
President Joe Biden announced he will hold a news conference at 7 p.m. ET on Thursday, a key event in a critical week for his election campaign as he continues to reject calls for him to step aside as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee in the 2024 election.
Biden’s candidacy is in doubt after Sen. Peter Welch of Vermont became the first Senate Democrat to call on him to drop out of the race, with more than a dozen House Democrats also calling for him to do so. have publicly called on Biden to end his campaign.
His last solo press conference It was in November 2023after meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in California.
Biden’s press conference is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. ET on Thursday, July 11, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC and will be streamed on the White House YouTube channel.
Thursday’s press conference, in which President Joe Biden will answer questions from reporters in an impromptu setting, was delayed about an hour because the event on NATO support for Ukraine started one hour and 20 minutes later than planned.
The president is expected to make brief remarks before taking questions from reporters, a White House official was quoted as saying by CNN.
Major television networks (CBS, NBC, Fox and ABC) are expected to drop their programming to broadcast the news conference live.
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