US President Joe Biden has said he will not step down as the Democratic candidate for the upcoming US election following reports that he may drop out of the race for the White House.

“I’m not leaving. I’m in this race to the end and we’re going to win,” Biden said Wednesday. The Democrat said this after the information from ‘The New York Times‘, in which he announced that Biden had held a conversation with a very close ally in which he acknowledged that may not be able to save his candidacy if he fails to convince voters in the coming days that he is prepared to remain in office for the next four years.

According to the aforementioned media, Biden still sees himself in the fight for re-election, setting his sights on three key dates: an interview on the ‘ABC’ network and two campaign rallies in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. This person from Biden’s inner circle has assured the following: “He knows that if there are two more events like the debate, we will be in a different place.“.

The conversation is the first indication that Biden may be considering backing off his candidacy after criticism of his performance in the debate against Donald Trump. A top Biden adviser has confessed that the US president is “very aware of the challenge he faces“.