Biden tries to flip the script on negative narrative coming out of disastrous debate with Trump

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Aiming to rebound after his halting performance in his first debate with former President Trump, President Biden is launching a new ad in key battleground states that aims to alter the brutal narrative coming out of last week's showdown.

The 60-second commercial doesn't use clips of the president's rough delivery and stumbling answers at the debate in Atlanta before an estimated audience of 50 million people across the country.

Instead, the spot showcases clips of an energetic Biden the next day at a rally in Raleigh, North Carolina.

"Folks, I know I’m not a young man. But I know how to do this job. I know right from wrong. I know how to tell the truth," Biden says in the ad. "And I know, like millions of Americans know, when you get knocked down, you get back up."

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The ad aims to salvage Biden's standing in his 2024 election rematch with Trump, and to ease widespread panic in the Democratic Party, after the president's performance sparked calls from political pundits, editorial writers, and some Democratic politicians and donors, for Biden to step aside as the party's standard-bearer.

The commercial also continues a theme from the Biden campaign since Thursday's debate – that Trump repeatedly spread falsehoods throughout the debate.

"Did you see Trump last night?" Biden says in the ad, in a clip from the Raleigh