continues and it is a lot of news on cnn with wolf blitzer, the one and only in the situation room, have a good weekend happening now, president biden tries to bounce back from his struggles out there on the debate stage. holding a fiery campaign rally today. and volley to win the election. but many democrats are in panic mode right now suggesting at least privately, he should consider sinner stepping aside. i get reaction from a key house democrats. this hour also tonight, donald trump is seizing on president biden's performance and slamming him as incompetent trump team celebrating as their candidates. so many debate lies were overshadowed by president biden's troubles. this hour, we're getting a new read on how cnn's historic presidential debate played in key battleground states that could decide the election talking to voters in the pivotal swing state of pennsylvania welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. a, you're in the situation room we begin with the seismic reaction to cnn's historic trick presidential debate. president biden and former president donald trump, both on the campaign trail today, one on a desperate damage control mission, the other, taking i think of a victory lap, are correspondence or covering the candidates and their post debate spin. first, let's go to cnn's arlette saenz. she's with president biden in new york right now. let how is the president attempting to clean up is widely panned debate performance well, well, if president biden just finished delivering remarks at the stonewall inn and historic site in the gay rights movement. >> he made no reference to his debate performance, simply portraying this campaign as a battle for the soul of the country great, but a bit earlier in the day, president biden was on the ground in north carolina, critical battleground state, and it was there where he tried to offer an attempt at a reset, ignore collagen, his poor performance in the debate, and trying to offer some explanation of where his head is at two voter take a listen i don't walk as easy as i used to. i don't speak a smoothie that i used to. i don't do bad debate is well, as i used to. well, i know what i do oh, i know how to tell the truth now, the president was much more fiery and impassion in those remarks in north carolina, perhaps something that his advisers had hoped to see on the debate stage last night. >> but instead, biden really offered a stumbling and halting performance. raise some concerns among some parts of the democratic party. here is a little bit of a few clips of what president biden's performance last night was like she injury it gives you have any this this decade at any troops dying anywhere in the world, like he did. well, i've been able to do with the covid excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do with if we finally beat medicare, there's a lot of young women to be raped by their, by their in-laws, by their by their spouses presence, and sisters by just it's just ridiculous. and they can do nothing about it now, publicly, you have saved democrats office they're support to president biden acknowledging some of the stumbles, but still believing that he presents a very stark choice for the country compared to donald trump. >> you have vice president here as president fama ascender, kyrsten gela brand, who was on hand at this event here in new york city shouted out into the crowd that he's a fighter. but privately, there are some democrats who are for expressing quite a bit of anxiety about the president's performance and the path forward in this race against donald trump. sources depth various democrats telling cnn over the past one 24 hours quote, we are asked calling the president's performance incoherent, horrific. all of those sentiments being expressed privately from many donors. now the are many democrats. now, the biden campaign today did hold an all staff meeting with their team. and so far, biden's advisers has had said that there's no change in his in his plan regarding the race, he plans to stay in it. he is also planning were told to participate in that next debate, which is slated to take place in september. but all eyes there'll be on president biden over the course of the coming days, weeks, and months to see how he performs, to see how he charged this path forward in this campaign as he is still hoping to we're running against donald trump in defeating him in november perla and i want you to stand by as we bring and cnn's kristen holmes. >> she's covering donald trump and his rally in virginia today. kristen trump i spent the rally capitalizing on his debate performance. tell us about that. is an illegal alien wasn't that surprising. we chose as victory lap for setting as senior advisers have been downright, julie about his performance last night. one thing i want to mention that this is not just about president joe biden when it comes to how exciting team has a lot of this is about the former president himself, but he said he stayed on message. take a look this is what he had to say about last night maybe broken despite the fact that crooked joe biden spent the entire week at camp david resting we work in studying, he studied very hard. >> he studied so hard that he didn't know what the hell he was doing he got to debate rules that he wanted he got the date that he wanted. he got the network that he wanted with the moderate. she wanted no amount of rest or reagan could help him defend his atrocious record be glenn youngkin's is one of now one thing i want to point to there is that while his team has been all over social media saying that biden nile hold and week. >> we never heard that from donald trump when he was responding here, you actually specifically said that it wasn't about a is likely because as we know, donald trump is very sensitive to conversations around age, given that he is just a bit younger than president joe biden. the other thing that hi is that he had heard that donald rumors that biden might drop out of the race, but he didn't think that was true because he believes biden police higher than any of the other democrats. that will be floating around potential now i will say one thing i want to point out here. this was not an entire iron. i have a personal attacks on joe biden hi, it's open to it. i'm donald trump allies who said that they hopefully would take this victory lap. stay on message like you saw last night for the most part, despite this cheering crowd, donald trump has done so well huisman homes and our left sides to both of you. >> thank you very much for joining us now, representative debbie dingell are key democrat from the presidential battleground state of michigan, representative dingell, thanks so much for joining us cnn has learned that even among some white house officials some group texts, chats about the debate are quote, and i'm quoting now from these texts, chats, a bismol, everyone is deflated end quote. do you agree with that assessment? >> look, i'm not going to sugar coat it person had a bad night. that debate was not a good debate but he acknowledged that today. but i by the way, don't think it was a good debate for donald trump in that one hour. be very clear. it campaign should have told us that he had a cold, should have prepared us that raspy voice. so from the very beginning, you're like, what's with the voice but dabbled trump doubled down and everything that so many of us were concerned about starting with, he's proud of overturning of roe versus wade, meaning he doesn't think women should be able to make the own decisions about their bodies he, what he said about january 6, he continues to say he's going to release people that have been have been found guilty. that he doesn't see anything wrong with it he even attacking policemen or people wanted to hang his own vice president is continuing to call for tax cuts that's for his billionaire friends and corporations. but what's he doing for the middle-class he has no specifics. we all have to talk about the economy every last one of us from now until november, he took shots at seniors, took shots at veterans this is a man who's got a record that's nothing to be proud of any doubled down on many things that we we have a responsibility and jump on. it's got a responsibility to remind people have between now and the first lady, jill biden said, and i'm quoting here now, last night on the debate stage was joe biden close quote, if that's the best president biden can do, why should democrats have confidence? he can actually wind up beating trump in november look, he's got i'm not going to sugar coat it as i said before, he has to in the next few days, he's got to every single day for this fourth of july week showed people he's strong, he's capable, he's got the ability to do it he's doing it today. >> i she also loving wife and she believes in her husband. i believe in joe biden. i think he's done a good job and i'm scared to death of what will happen to our democracy, what will happened so many issues i care about if president trump is reelected again. but president biden has to show people is up to the job, which i believe he is. he had a bad beit night. other people have had the bad debate nights. we all have bad days but this does increase the pressure raanan to show people. you can do it, but i don't have a lot of confidence in donald trump and he doubled down, double down, trickled down on things that i think are dangerous to this country. >> the biden campaign says their strategy won't change at all post debate that public snape and won't change at all post debate is that a mistake i don't know what that means when they say you know, a lot of han reading you and i both know, you know, what's interesting wolfe is. >> i'm home. i got home. i couldn't wait to get out of washington today. and there's a lot of hand-wringing in washington, a lot of drama. we all know today's the gotcha day but interestingly, i'm not saying this is massive a few people, an african american male that i know had doubts about your biden said to me, i've tried listen to donald trump last night. i'm beginning to understand better why we need to reelect joe biden i want to be home this week. i want to see what people are thinking, but i also hope i got a message for the biden campaign. listen to the people that are home in their battleground states. we know what you've gotta do on our states to win. >> we know michigan is a key battleground. state, is president biden, representative dingell, the best, the strongest democrat to beat trump in november you know what looked at two gotcha. >> question. i'm just not going go there. he is the candidate is the person that's gonna get nominated. ethic convention in august. and i will do whatever it takes to protect our democracy, to continue to protect our workers, to protect the middle-class, to protect every woman and joke body 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danny freeman spoke with pennsylvania voters in scranton. that's the city where the president was born. >> at zoo most cafe in scranton, pennsylvania. the coffee flowed friday morning and so did the post debate emotions. it was painful pool for what i feel like the candidates were two kids. do you can it out in preschool? i feel disoriented. that's the word that i i'm trying to come up with. >> robin burnt is the owner of the cafe just blocks away from where president biden grew up. we allow biden were were screened one in we want successful and we want to feel that connection like we have felt over the last four years. and independent, she voted for biden in 2020, but it's now left hoping biden gets a second chance to prove he can do the job. they just don't think that that was really well represented. so i like an amine get another go. wow, he stumbled. i don't think it was his best night really. and you have to be truthful about that. >> lifelong democrat done a devito was disappointed by biden's performance, but still said she wouldn't vote for former president trump. >> debate did not spark any concerns in joe biden and president biden and his ability to spend the next four years leading our country. >> but lexi to woolf disagrees. >> i don't know what four more years would look like for somebody who's already at that point, the wolf voted for biden in 2020, but now fears he doesn't have what it takes for the job. did you have concerns about biden's capacity in your words, before last night? yeah yeah. but i think last night worse here in typically blue lacan want to county biden won by fewer than 10,000 votes in 2020. the margins here crucial as biden won pennsylvania by about 80,000 votes, i was thrilled. i couldn't have been happier republican activists and avid trump's support or robin medea's loved the debate and thinks trump's performance will galvanize the former president's base it certainly will help biden was in such deplorable condition that it certainly will help mike mann zeno turned off the debate early. i think president trump performed like the president trump there's a lot of, let's say inaccuracies and details a lot of. broad state but the registered democrat who voted third party in 2020 said biden did not win him over either. >> did the debate alleviate any concerns that you might have had about his age? >> no no, they'd be more confirmed to my concerns that alleviated any concern now, wolfe, i just want to add, even among those people who we spoke with off-camera, the debate very much was on people's mind today, especially a big topic of conversation in that cafe, that be visited. and you heard it in the piece, even though there were different perspectives, the majority of people told us that this debate it was crucially important and that it will have an impact on this race well, very freeman reporting for us from scranton. >> thank you, danny very much. let's get some more debate reaction from our political experts who are here with us and navarro, your heard those voters concerns, even if president biden keeps up the energy out there on the campaign trail as he clearly did. today is that enough to overcome the rough debate performance that was seared into americans minds last night we don't know the answer to that, but the bottom line is that the biden campaign has no wiggle room, left, right? >> he can't have another performance like he did last night. he needs to have a lot more performances like he did today. and that rally in north carolina right now as we speak, he's here in new york for the commemoration of stonewall. he's got a gala this evening, but i'm attending, so i'll be able to tell you what he was like there and it's just it's hard to reconcile the buy-in we saw that debate stage. you had a terrible night. he had a terrible night. it was disturbing and worrisome. it was painful. i agree with those voters with the biden we've seen since just an hour after the debate, he wasn't a waffle house and being a completely different person at two in the morning, he was greeting supporters that the rally in durham airport and was completely different than at the debate today. he's been completely different. i mean, to me, it's rather welcome christian psalters anderson is here with me in the situation room, democrat democratic leaders, as you know, kristen, they're, they're clearly rallying around president biden right now, including the former president barack obama, who issued a statement saying this bad debate nights happen. >> trust me, i know but. this election is still a choice between someone who has fought for ordinary folks his entire life, and someone who only cares about himself. last night didn't change that. and it's why so much is at stake in november is the democratic party seemingly out of touch right now? >> this decision to circle the wagons around president biden 24 hours, less than 24 hours after the complete debacle of last night is somewhat baffling to me. in