SELINA WANG: Today, the president joining an all-staff campaign call, telling them, "I'm in this race to the end, and we're going to win." He's spent the last few days largely out of sight, holding few events, reading off a teleprompter. His aides have blamed his poor debate performance on a cold, but overnight, the president offering a new explanation, saying he "wasn't very smart" for taking two trips to Europe before his faceoff with Trump. This, even though he returned to the U.S. 12 days before the debate.
KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: There's a cold, there's a jet lag. You combine that and he continues to work for the American people day in and day out around the clock. Things happen. Things happen.
WANG: The White House says the president is, quote, “as sharp as ever”, but tonight, a second Democrat in Congress calling on Biden to drop out. Congressman Raul Grijalva of battleground Arizona telling The New York Times, "If he's the candidate, I'm going to support him. But I think that this is an opportunity to look elsewhere. What he needs to do is shoulder the responsibility for keeping that seat and part of that responsibility is to get out of this race."
