Biden At Press Briefing: 'I'm Determined On Running But I Think It's Important That I Allay Fears'

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At a press briefing on Thursday, President Biden was asked if he was determined running.

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00:00Thank you, Mr. President.

00:04Many of your colleagues, Democrats in the Hill, are watching tonight as they assess

00:09what they want to say about your candidacy.

00:11I'm wondering how you're thinking of this right now.

00:14It seems like your answer is clear, but they're watching how things go tonight, tomorrow in

00:19Michigan, next week in Texas and Nevada.

00:22Are you thinking that way about whether how the next week or two goes would inform your

00:26view?

00:27Am I using that way of saying?

00:28Are you thinking that way about how the next two weeks go?

00:31Will that affect your decision?

00:33Or are you fully determined on running in November as the party's nominee?

00:39I'm determined on running, but I think it's important that I lay fears by seeing, let

00:45them see me out there.

00:47Let me see them, you know, for the longest time it was, you know, Biden's not prepared

00:52to sit with us unscripted, Biden's not prepared to, you know, anyway.

00:57And so what I'm doing is, and I've been doing, I think we've done over 20 major events from

01:02Wisconsin to North Carolina, anyway, to demonstrate that I'm going out in the areas where we think

01:10we can win, where we can persuade people to move our way, or people are already there.

01:16And look, the other thing is, we have the most extensive campaign organization of anybody's

01:21had in a long, long time.

01:24We have well over a thousand volunteers knocking on doors, making phone calls, making tens

01:30of thousands of phone calls.

01:32We have headquarters, I forget exactly how many, I want to cite a number and then find

01:37out I'm off.

01:38But we have scores of headquarters and all the toss-up states were organized, were moving.

01:47And that's awful hard to replace in the near term.

01:51And so, and here's the other thing.

01:56I was in the Senate a long time, very proud of what I've done in the Senate.

02:01I was chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee for a long time and I was chairman or ranking

02:05member and chairman of the Judiciary Committee.

02:08I'm going to be going down to the Johnson Library on, anyway, I'm going to be going

02:14around making the case of the things that I think we have to finish and how we can't

02:19afford to lose what we've done or backslide on civil rights, civil liberties, women's

02:27rights, that little button we have.

02:31Controlled guns, not girls.

02:33I mean, the idea, we're sitting around, this is where Kamala was so good as well.

02:38We're sitting around, more children are killed by a bullet than any other cause of death.

02:47The United States of America.

02:50What the hell are we doing?

02:52What are we doing?

02:53We've got a candidate sent, promised the NRA, don't worry, I'm not going to do anything.

02:57I'm not going to do anything.

02:59We've got a Supreme Court that is what you might call the most conservative court in

03:03American history.

03:06This is ridiculous.

03:07There's so much we can do still and I'm determined to get it done.

03:13It's about freedom.

03:14By the way, I'll end this, well, I'm not going to do that, Haley has to come up too, but

03:24I remember I made a speech on democracy in Philadelphia at Independence Hall and I'm

03:32not being critical, just observing, the bulk of the press, what the hell is he talking

03:36about that for?

03:37Democracy.

03:38He did.

03:39Democracy is not an issue.

03:40Democracy is not an issue.

03:42Democracy is not an issue, except the polling data showed 60% of the people knew I was right,

03:48thought I was right.

03:50I'm not asking you a question, you don't have to answer, obviously, but do you think our

03:53democracy is under siege based on this court?

03:57Do you think democracy is under siege based on Project 2025?

04:01Do you think he means what he says when he says he's going to do away with the civil

04:05service, eliminate the Department of Education, make sure, I mean, we've never been here

04:11before and that's the other reason why I didn't, you say, hand off to another generation.

04:17I've got to finish this job.

04:19I've got to finish this job because there's so much at stake.

Biden At Press Briefing: 'I'm Determined On Running But I Think It's Important That I Allay Fears'

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