President Joe Biden will sit for an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt Monday, as he struggles to stop the fallout from his disastrous debate with former President Donald Trump last month.
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Holt will interview Biden on NBC Nightly News at 9 p.m. ET Monday, the network announced Wednesday.
The interview is part of a flurry of media spots Biden has done since the June 27 debate as part of a concerted effort to reassure voters and his party that he is the best candidate to beat Trump in November.
The clean-up attempt is widely viewed among Democrats as falling short of what needs to be done to right the course of his campaign, however, as he continues to face a slow drip of calls for his resignation and more influential lawmakers have expressed doubts about his future.
On Friday, Biden sat for a 22-minute interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos in which he insisted the debate was just a “bad night” and rebuffed calls from some Democrats, including Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to take a cognitive test.
This is a developing story and will be updated.