The room at the summit gasped when Mr Biden misidentified Mr Zelensky as Mr Putin.
US President Joe Biden on July 11 mistakenly referred to Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky as "President Putin" before correcting himself.
While correcting himself about two seconds later, Mr Biden added: “President Putin, you’re going to beat President Putin, President Zelensky. I am so focused on beating Putin.”Mr Zelensky responded to Mr Biden’s comments by saying, “I am better .” So far, 13 of the 213 Democrats in the House and one of the Senate’s 51 Democrats have appealed publicly to the president to withdraw from the race.
Before the news conference, four more Democrats in the House of Representatives called on Mr Biden to end his campaign: Mr Brad Schneider of Illinois, Mr Greg Stanton of Arizona, Mr Ed Case of Hawaii, and Ms Hillary Scholten of Michigan. “I doubt the President’s judgment about his health, his fitness to do the job, and whether he is the one making important decisions about our country, rather than unelected advisors,” Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez said in a statement.
A Reuters/Ipsos poll released last week found Ms Harris would fare no better than Mr Biden if she were the Democratic nominee, as both were statistically tied with Trump.
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