President Joe Biden was defiant throughout a uncommon news conference … fighting back at critics who are calling for him to drop out of the race.

POTUS is attempting to show voters he’s nevertheless got the mental chops to beat Donald Trump and carry out the duties of president for a different term … and when he created a couple of trademark flubs — like saying “Vice President Trump” in referring to Kamala Harris — he was confident in his capacity to win a different election, and pushed back on narratives about his mental fitness.

Biden named his debate disaster a “stupid error” … saying he was off his game since he traveled all more than creation in the weeks just before … like from Italy to L.A. to go to the fundraiser with George Clooney. He mentioned he will not make that error once again.

The Prez also poo-poo’d stories about him getting no excellent just after eight PM … Biden says the narrative out there is false and he just desires fundraising events moved up in the day so his supporters can get residence earlier. He says he’s attempting to pace himself far more and his schedule remains jam-packed just after the debate.

Biden took some shots at Trump as well … saying the former president just rides about on his golf cart these days when he gets critical policy passed.

There is a lot of stress on Biden right here, each internally and externally, with White Residence press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre even hyping this look up as a “significant boy” press conference.

Biden’s so far been defiant amid developing calls for him to drop out of the race, saying he has no plans to adjust course … and he seemed fairly peeved with all the noise, and it came across in his remarks.

TMZ broke the story … ‘GMA’ anchor George Stephanopoulos is on video telling a passerby he does not think Biden could serve a different term. George has talked to Biden far more than most not too long ago, like a current a single-on-a single interview.

A day just before Biden’s significant press conference, George Clooney published an op-ed in The New York Occasions calling on Biden to make way for a distinctive candidate to challenge Trump.

Clooney mentioned his interactions with Biden at final month’s Los Angeles fundraiser left him feeling like Biden “was not the Joe ‘big F-ing deal’ Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the exact same man we all witnessed at the debate.”

Michael Douglas also went on Television and seconded Clooney’s opinion about Biden … saying on “The View” that George was producing a “valid point.”

Biden has some people in his corner … like D.L. Hughley and Joy Behar — and California Governor Gavin Newsom continues to go to bat for POTUS.