fiery speech to follow up a debate that many democrats called a disaster. can his direct attacks now on donald trump quiet the talk about his future on the ticket? plus, what the polling reveals about the democratic names floated to take his spot. our steve kornacki is standing by with the numbers. and the debate question that donald trump did not want to answer, his response when asked if he would accept the results of the next election. the supreme court siding with a january 6th rioters, that could upend cases, including one against former president trump. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin in battleground, north carolina, where president biden s demeanor was completely different than the debate stage last night. nbc s mike memoli is reporting from raleigh. the president, he sounds rearing for a fight. reporter: yeah, that s right, chris. i mean, we started this debate series of events with a lot of people wondering whethe
these questions swirl around, but i should note, these are legitimate questions, ones that we still do not have answers for. now, he did push back fiercefully during that press conference last night. and afterwards at a late-night event, he made mention to this new tone he s taking. he said, a lot of people assume i m quiet, and because i m quiet, they think i m soft. but i think people are now starting to learn that i can be loud, and in his words, particularly when injustices are being done. sunlen serfati, gorgeous backdrop, by the way, thank you so much, traveling with dr. carson. let s dig deeper on this. joining me from new york, democratic strategist, nomiki konst. so nomiki, carson usually quiet and calm but last night he was a little agitated and he said he was being treated differently than president obama was treated when he ran for president.
the united states are often basically made firm in the voters minds in the months of july, august and september. so this bad economic news not only weighs heavily on the president s plans but it weighs very heavily on his party s political prospects come november. we know the economy a tough thing for him to handle but so many other issues percolating out there. the president probably needs a vacation more than anyone else is this president going to get any r&r? reporter: he s going to try and what our experience taught us last year is sometimes you dork sometimes you don t. the president got a few days of r&r here last year but also took time to reappoint ben bernanke as federal reserve chairman and the vacation was disrupted considerably for a couple days by unexpected death of senator kennedy of massachusetts. president rearranged his schedule to not only honor ted kennedy but deliver the eulogy. unexpected events often encroach on presidential vacations. certainly do. gorgeo