Will Biden step down? Panic grips Democrats as debate gives Trump leg-up in US presidential race
President Joe Biden’s allies scrambled on Friday to contain the fallout from his faltering performance at the first 2024 U.S. presidential debate after he struggled to stem a barrage of attacks and false claims from his Republican rival Donald Trump. The Biden campaign had hoped that a strong debate would quell concerns among voters that the 81-year-old Democratic incumbent is too old to serve a second four-year term. Instead, a hoarse-sounding Biden stumbled over his words at times, especially in the early stages of the debate. One Biden donor, who asked for anonymity to speak freely about the president, called