Trump Taunts Besieged Biden With New Debate With A Big Change; POTUS Insists He’s Staying In Race As Mass. Gov. Asks Him To “Carefully Evaluate” The Campaign

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It probably won’t be Lincoln vs Douglas, but another debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump could be in the cards. As the incumbent has just started to give a much anticipated and delayed speech in Wisconsin right now in efforts to contain the ongoing blast radius from 81-year-old Biden’s debate debacle of last week, the 78-year-old ex-president and presumptive GOP nominee has thrown down the “no holds barred” gauntlet anew.

In his opening remarks, Biden mocked Trump’s own cognitive abilities with the 44th president’s own claim to be “a stable genius.” The president then launched into his standard stump speech. “Can’t say it was my best performance,” the president noted of the June 27 debate. “I’m staying in the race,” Biden said, as he has several times in the past few days. “I’m not letting one 90-minute debate wipe out three years of hard work,” he added, trying to turn his age as the oldest POTUS ever to his advantage in front of the cheering crowd. RELATED: Joe Biden Will “Absolutely Not” Resign, White House Press Secretary Declares; “Not Leaving,” POTUS Tells Staff As Debate Blast Radius Expands Still, a week after Biden’s disastrous debate appearance, Trump today challenged his rival to another debate, with one big difference from their last run-in. “It would also, under great pressure, prove his ‘competence,’ or lack thereof,” Trump posted online this morning for a new debate with no moderators. “Likewise it would be yet another test for me.

What a great evening it would be, just the two of us, one on one, in a good, old fashioned Debate, the way they used to be. ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ANYPLACE!!!”  CNN’s Jake Tapper and Dana Bash moderated the June 27 debate.