It is not every day that the standard-bearer of a political party finds himself increasingly isolated from the other members of his party who are trying to get rid of him, but that is the position of President Joe Biden today.

Now two weeks removed from his disastrous debate performance, the calls from elected Democrats for Biden to withdraw from the race have not only failed to subside, but have increased as time has gone on. All the while, operatives and politicians within the party continue to leak details of the party’s internal fractures.

The president is scheduled to have a “big boy” press conference Thursday evening that will likely go a long way in determining if more Democratic politicians will call for him to withdraw from the 2024 campaign and allow a new nominee to step in. And next week he is scheduled to sit down for an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt.

But even before these two major public appearances, Biden has effectively turned the final weeks before the Democratic National Convention in Chicago into a fight with his own party, and it is a fight that is driven by his own defiant arrogance and pride.

At 81 years old, Biden is the oldest man ever to occupy the White House, and for the second time, is set to be the oldest major party nominee ever. But to understand why the president is defiantly telling his party to drop their calls for him to exit the race we have to go back to 1987.

In 1987, Biden first launched a campaign for president. Ronald Reagan was finishing up two terms in office, Biden was 44 years old and had already been elected to represent Delaware in the U.S. Senate three times. He was the young and energetic future of the Democratic Party and could have led the party’s ticket in the 1988 election. But despite his youthful image, this first bid for the big job would fall apart amid allegations of plagiarism, even before the first votes were cast.

Twenty years later, Biden tried again, this time making it all the way to the Iowa caucuses, where he would come in a distant fifth place and unceremoniously withdraw. But then-candidate Barack Obama resurrected his political career by choosing him to be vice president, a position he would hold for the next eight years.

Then finally in 2020, by then 78 years old, Biden secured the job he had long sought: the presidency of the United States.

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No one, not even George Clooney, can convince Biden to step aside from the job he has quite literally spent half of his life pursuing. And as those of us who have cared for aging parents and grandparents know, stubbornness only increases with age.

Whether congressional Democrats like it or not, Biden is willing to go to war with his own party establishment to keep his place atop the ticket. And for those who hope for a swift end to the disastrous Biden administration, that is just fine.