Obama and Pelosi hold talks on Biden’s future after ‘Vice President Trump’ gaffe in press conference: Live

Here’s an overview of the president’s most recent post-debate blunders and mix-ups, which, understandable though they may be, keep on undermining his case for staying on.

Revealing footage has captured the moment members of Joe Biden’s cabinet reacted to his latest gaffe during his high-stakes press conference on Thursday night.

During what was tipped to be a critical briefing – as he seeks to win over growing skepticism about his competence to serve – the 81-year-old president mistakenly referred to his deputy Kamala Harris as “Vice President Trump”.

“I wouldn’t have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president, though I think she was not qualified to be president,” Biden said, without correcting himself.

Biden’s Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan were sat in the audience during the stunning moment and their expressions were picked up on the C-SPAN cameras.

The top officials appeared crestfallen and dismayed by the gaffe, seemingly trying not to react too significantly – closing their eyes and looking at the floor in silent dejection.

Former president Barack Obama and ex-House speaker Nancy Pelosi have reportedly privately expressed their concerns about President Joe Biden’s future as he continues to struggle to convince the American electorate and his fellow Democrats that he remains the right person to top the ticket and take on Trump in November.

“Neither is quite sure what to do,” reports CNN, rather ominiously, with both keenly aware that neither Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer or House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has the personal clout with Biden to sway him.

Pelosi has been non-commital on Biden in recent days while saying that questions about his wellbeing are “legitimate” while Obama is understood to have known about his friend George Clooney’s New York Times op-ed calling for Biden to step aside in advance and raised no objections.

Here’s the latest from Andrew Feinberg on Biden’s closet aides huddling.

The Republican presidential candidate’s attorneys have formally asked the judge overseeing his hush money trial to throw out the 34-count verdict against him and dismiss the case based on the Supreme Court’s landmark decision on presidential “immunity.”

A 50-page filing in Manhattan criminal court that was made public on Thursday — the day Trump was initially scheduled to be sentenced — argues that several pieces of evidence used against the former president fall under the scope of the Supreme Court’s decision, which shields presidents from criminal prosecution for “official” acts in office.

Those “impermissible official-acts evidence” include Trump’s conversations with a White House aide who testified at the trial, phone records from his time in office, and posts on Twitter, which was “recognized as a formal channel of White House communication in the Trump Administration,” according to Trump’s attorney Todd Blanche.

Here’s the latest from Alex Woodward.

The president’s faltering appearances have made physicians out of all of us but especially within his own party, Richard Hall writes.

This one of the president’s better moments during yesterday’s presser, attacking his Republican rival for his idleness, which we saw plenty of in office.

Donald Trump and his cronies have, inevitably, been mocking poor old Joe Biden following his press conference gaffe confusing Vice President Kamala Harris with his Republican rival.

“Crooked Joe begins his ‘Big Boy’ Press Conference with, ‘I wouldn’t have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president, though I think she was not qualified to be president.’ Great job, Joe!” Trump sneared on Truth Social.