Newsom heads east for meeting with Biden as president tries to keep his campaign from heading south

Two-term California Gov. Gavin Newsom travels on Wednesday to the nation's capital, to take part in a meeting President Biden has called with the nation's Democratic governors in the wake of Biden's extremely rough performance during last Thursday's debate with former President Trump.

"Governor Newsom will head to the White House tomorrow to attend the Governors meeting and to stand with the President," a spokesperson for the California governor said late Tuesday.

Biden, who at age 81 is the oldest president in the nation's history, is facing the roughest stretch of his bid for a second term in the White House. This, after his halting delivery and stumbling answers at the debate, sparked widespread panic in the Democratic Party and spurred calls from political pundits, editorial writers and in party donors for Biden to step aside as the party's 2024 standard-bearer. In the past 24 hours, a small but growing number of elected Democrats have also urged the president to end his re-election bid.

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Biden's meeting Wednesday at the White House, which is also expected to include Democratic congressional leaders, comes after Democrat governors on Monday huddled on a conference call to discuss the fallout from the debate.

Monday's call was organized by Democratic Governors Association (DGA) Chair Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota. Sources told Fox News that the Biden campaign was aware of the call ahead of time.

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A number of the governors, including some who've been speculated as potential replacements on the extreme long-shot chance that Biden would step away from his re-election bid, have acknowledged the president's