President Joe Biden’s campaign insisted Friday he will not drop out of the 2024 race, but fractures between those in the president’s orbit insisting on trudging forward and the broader Democratic world seeking a last-minute change were growing after Biden’s disastrous debate performance, Paralel.Az reports citing CNN.

Biden acknowledged the weak performance while giving a much more animated speech in North Carolina on Friday, saying, “I know I’m not a young man. I don’t walk as easily as I used to. I don’t talk as smoothly as I used to. I don’t debate as well as I used to, but i know what I do know: I know how to tell the truth. I know right from wrong. And I know how to do this job, I know how to get things done. And I know what millions of Americans know: When you get knocked down, you get back up.”

Asked whether Biden would exit the race, Biden campaign spokesperson Seth Schuster responded: “No.”

“There’s no basis for that,” one Biden adviser also told CNN Friday morning. “There’s nothing that voters have indicated that they agree with that.”

Mitch Landrieu, the campaign’s co-chair, told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Friday night that he has “100% confidence in Joe Biden,” adding that it will be “his decision alone whether he’s going to continue.”