President Biden will spend his weekend away from the White House at his Delaware beach house, a well-known presidential retreat, ahead of high-stakes interviews and the Republican Party convention next week.
Following a campaign event Friday night in Michigan, the president's weekend in Rehoboth Beach has been largely quiet after he acknowledged Thursday that he needs to “get a grip” but insisted he should take on a more robust schedule ahead of the 2024 election.
Biden is expected to participate in two conference calls Saturday with House Democrats (the New Democrat Coalition and the Congressional Progressive Caucus), but he does not have any public events on his Saturday schedule in Rehoboth. Thirteen Democrats in the New Democrat Coalition have called for Biden to step aside from the 2024 race.
The president may also reportedly attend a church service during his weekend trip.
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Sources close to the president's vacation home in Sussex County, Delaware, told Fox News Digital that there has been little activity by the Secret Service since the president arrived in the town on Friday night. (Getty Images/Fox News)
Sporadic rain is expected throughout the rest of the day in Rehoboth Beach, and Biden remained sheltering in place amid growing calls from members of his own party for him to drop out of the White House race.
Sources close to the president's vacation home in Sussex County, Delaware, told Fox News Digital that there has been little activity by the Secret Service since the president arrived in the town on Friday night.
When the president returns to work next week, he will be forced to change course for a series of additional high-stakes interviews amid the Republican National Conventionwhich will take place in Milwaukee from July 15 to 18.
Biden is scheduled to participate in a taped interview with “NBC Nightly News” anchor Lester Holt on Monday from Austin, Texas. That interview, which will mark the president's second appearance on a cable news show since their rocky debate last month, will air in full at 9 p.m. ET the same day.
The president will also participate in two additional interviews next week, According to Dylan Byerssenior correspondent for Puck News.
Byers reported Thursday that Biden would participate in an interview on Tuesday with a “Black national media outlet” during the NAACP Conference, and another on Wednesday with a “Latino national media outlet.”
Those interviews will come as Biden continues his attempt to convince members of his own party, as well as voters in different corners of America who have concerns about his age and mental acuity, that he is up to the task of four more years. In the White House.
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Images from a gloomy Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, show road closures amid the president's weekend visit and a parking lot packed with government vehicles. (Fox News)
A large majority of Americans want Biden to drop out of the race, including most of his own supporters, according to a poll from thursday from ABC News and the Washington Post that was published before his press conference.
Sixty-seven percent of respondents said Biden should drop out of the race, and 85% said he is too old for a second term. Meanwhile, 60% of respondents also said former President Trump is too old for a second term, up from 44% in spring 2023.
Among Democrats and voters who said that Democrat leaning, Sixty-two percent said Biden should drop out of the race. Even among self-declared Biden supporters, 54% said he should drop out of the race.
However, the poll found Biden and Trump virtually tied, despite voters' lack of confidence. confidence in Biden, With 46% saying they would vote for the current president and 47% saying they support Trump.
A total of 18 elected Democrats have called on Biden to step aside from the race for the White House.
President Biden during a campaign event in Detroit, Michigan, July 12, 2024. (Emily Elconin/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Despite calls for him to drop out of the race, Biden told supporters at his rally in Detroit on Friday that he is “not going anywhere.”
“You elected me as a candidate, no one else. Not the press, not the pundits, not the insiders, not the donors; you, the voters. You decided, no one else, and I'm not going anywhere,” he said.
Fox News' Chad Pergram and Anders Hagstrom contributed to this report.
