Biden says he'd re-evaluate staying in the race if diagnosed with a medical condition

President Joe Biden would re-evaluate his decision to continue his campaign if a doctors told him he has a medical condition, he said in an interview with BET News.

“If I have some medical condition that emerged,” Biden said in the interview, which aired Wednesday night, when asked if there was anything that would warrant his re-evaluation of his campaign. “If somebody, if the doctors came to me and said you got this problem, that problem.”

Biden has been facing continued calls from other Democrats to drop out of the race after his lackluster debate performance last month. But the president has dismissed the possibility of exiting the race, telling ABC News that Democratic leaders in Congress urged him to continue his campaign. The president insisted in that interview that he would drop out of the race only “if the Lord Almighty came down.”

Biden also appeared to slip-up several times during the interview, seemingly forgetting former President Herbert Hoover's name and apparently mistaking the name of former President Donald Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio.

“You know, there’s only two presidents in American history who have come to office and left with fewer jobs than they came to office. And the other was a guy we all know very well,” Biden said, referring to Hoover. “So, I call ... anyway, Trump is one of them.”

When discussing abortion rights, Biden seemed to fumble Vance's name, referring to “Mance.” Vance has been targeted by Biden's campaign for his opposition to Democratic-led legislation to codify abortion rights after the Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling in 2022.

“Look, one of the things that’s happening is, you know, the majority of the states, even conservative states,