Biden won't drop out of election against Trump unless polls say 'there's no way you can win'

• President Joe Biden said nothing would make him reconsider his decision to remain in the 2024 presidential election contest unless polling data showed "there's no way you can win."
• Biden's statement was in response to a reporter who asked him if he would reconsider his vow to stay in the race if his campaign team "came back and showed you data that" Vice President Kamala Harris "would fare better against former President Donald Trump."
• Biden began the news conference after seeing more Democrats in Congress call on him to exit the race. Reps. Jim Himes of Connecticut and Scott Peters of Calfornia joined that chorus immediately afterward.

President Joe Biden on Thursday said that nothing would make him reconsider his decision to remain in the 2024 presidential election contest unless polling data showed "there's no way you can win."

"No one's saying that," Biden said in a stage whisper during a news conference in Washington, D.C. "No poll says that."

Biden's statement was in response to a reporter who asked him if he would reconsider his vow to stay in the race if his campaign team "came back and showed you data that" Vice President Kamala Harris "would fare better against former President Donald Trump."

Biden began the news conference after seeing more Democrats in Congress call on him to exit the race.

Those calls were sparked by his dismal performance in a debate against the Republican Trump in late June, where Biden sometimes garbled his words and lost his train of thought, sparking concern his mental faculties were declining.

Biden was asked during the conference if he would release his Democratic National Convention delegates to "vote their conscience," setting up the possibility of the first seriously contested