President Biden is now planning on holding two campaign events on Sunday: one in Philadelphia and another in Harrisburg, Pa., according to a White House schedule. It continues his efforts to inject new life into his campaign.

Biden plans to return to the White House on Sunday night, ahead of the NATO summit in Washington, which begins Tuesday.

Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) praised Biden’s interview but said he wanted to see more.

“We need an extended live interview that focuses on where Biden plans to lead us over the next 4 years,” Sherman wrote on social media.

The post echoed a similar call he made for a longer live interview on Friday before the full ABC News interview was shown. The congressman acknowledged that Biden “may very well be able to give us another great four years.”

“I think that we need to test Biden further,” Sherman told CNN.

President Biden attempted to quiet the detractors calling for him to drop out with an ABC News interview Friday that also put a spotlight on his interviewer — George Stephanopoulos, the former Democratic operative turned star ABC anchor and host. Stephanopoulos gently but firmly prodded Biden on his motivations for staying in the race after last week’s halting and unfocused debate performance — a technique that drew praise from other journalists on social media.

Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) scheduled a call with top Democrats on House committees for Sunday — a decision that was made before President Biden’s rally in Wisconsin and ABC interview that aired Friday night.

Ranking members on House committees routinely meet with Jeffries on Wednesdays when the chamber is in session. but the restlessness of members prompted Jeffries to move up the weekly meeting to Sunday.

Numerous House Democrats weren’t swayed by President Biden’s performance on the campaign trail Friday. Biden’s defiance to stay in the race shocked many of them, who were described as “pissed” that he was so dug in.

Former congressman Tim Ryan of Ohio, who previously called on Biden to drop out of the race, said Friday the president’s interview “didn’t move the needle at all.”

“I don’t think he energized anybody. I think there was a level of him being out of touch with the reality on the ground,” the Democrat told MSNBC.

“I’m worried,” Ryan added.

Biden sent a fundraising email Friday evening echoing the defiance he expressed during his rally and ABC television interview.

“Look, while this team has had my back every step of the way, the pundits and politicians have continually gotten it wrong. Dead wrong,” the email said. “They were wrong about 2020. I beat Donald Trump then. And I will do it again this year.”

Much of Biden’s actions today were meant to quell the fervor, and reaction from various parts of the Democratic Party may be mixed. But Biden’s allies and those in his campaign feel reassured by how the day went. It’s clear from Biden’s actions and rhetoric that it will take significant outside circumstances — as he stated in the interview, perhaps even the “Lord Almighty” — to persuade him to get out of the race.

Biden “is basically in denial” about “the decline that people can clearly see,” Julian Castro, a former secretary for Housing and Urban Development in the Obama administration, said on MSNBC on Friday evening.

Castro earlier called for Biden to drop out of the race.

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), a vocal supporter of Biden’s, doubled down on his backing after the president’s ABC interview.

“Democrats need to get a spine,” Fetterman posted on X. He added that “Joe Biden is our guy.”

President Biden is in Wilmington, Del., Friday evening. He did not make any comments after the ABC interview aired. After Air Force One touched down in Wilmington, a reporter asked Biden if he would watch the ABC broadcast. “I will, yes,” he replied.

President Biden downplayed a report in The Washington Post that Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) was trying to get Democratic senators together to force him out of the race.

“Mark is a good man,” Biden said, before saying: “He tried to get the nomination, too,” perhaps referring to the senator’s presidential aspirations more than a decade ago. “I have a different perspective,” Biden said.

The bottom line for Biden is about his age, ABC News’s Martha Raddatz said in an analysis after the ABC News interview aired. “This will dominate this campaign. Aging is not like a broken bone. It doesn’t get better,” Raddatz said.

ABC News’s Jonathan Karl said Biden did “nothing” to assuage the concerns that Democrats have about the 81-year-old president.

“In fact,” Karl added, “for some of those people the interview is raising new concerns, particularly the fact that he is unwilling or unaware of the fact that he is in a dire situation here regarding the campaign.”

Karl did acknowledge that Biden in the interview with George Stephanopoulos was “certainly more coherent than he looked during the debate.”

Biden has long argued that he is the best shot the Democrats have to beat Donald Trump in November, but when asked how he’d feel in January if he’s lost the race, the president didn’t show alarm about the prospect.

“I feel as long as I gave it my all and I did as good a job as I know I can do, that’s what this is about,” he said.

Biden dismissed concerns about his low approval ratings.

“Well, I don’t believe that’s my approval rating,” he said. “That’s not what our polls show.”

Biden’s approval rating has dropped to 37 percent, according to the Reuters/Ipsos tracker, last updated June 28.

“I’ve never seen a president with 36 percent approval get reelected,” George Stephanopoulos said to President Biden, who replied: “I don’t believe that’s my approval rating. That’s not what our polls show.”

Citing proof of his daily duties that should inspire confidence with Americans, Biden in the ABC interview described his recent conversations with foreign leaders, including a phone call with Britain’s new prime minister, Keir Starmer.

Asked if he could be convinced to step down if he would lose to Trump, Biden, a devout Catholic, laughed and then turned to his faith.

“If the Lord Almighty said get out of the race, I’d get out of the race,” he said. “The Lord Almighty’s not coming down.”

Biden denied that he was losing to Trump in recent national polls, telling Stephanopoulos that “all the pollsters I talk to tell me it’s a toss-up.”

“I don’t buy that,” Biden said of polling that shows Trump leading. Biden referred to the expected “red wave” that didn’t arrive during the 2022 midterm elections as evidence polling could be wrong.

When asked directly if he had the mental capacity to be president for four years, Biden replied: “I believe so. I wouldn’t be running if I didn’t think I did.”

President Biden downplayed his physical decline in recent years, saying in an ABC News interview, “Can I run the 100 in 10 flat? No. But I’m still in good shape.”

When asked if he is “more frail,” the 81-year-old Democrat responded, “No.”

Biden has batted away several questions about whether he would take a neurological exam, saying the country should just watch him and that he essentially has a test every day. But he declines to undergo any medical assessment.

Clarification: An earlier version of this article misquoted President Biden. This version has been corrected.

Asked if he has had a cognitive or neurological test, Biden said in the ABC interview that he has not. “No one said I had to,” he said, adding his daily work is a cognitive test.

ABC’s George Stephanopoulos said at the top of the broadcast that the network is airing the full 22-minute interview with President Biden. “There are no cuts, no edits. We have not touched it. At this pivotal moment in the presidential campaign, here it is,” Stephanopoulos told viewers.

Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) on Friday became the latest sitting lawmaker to call on President Biden to quit the presidential race.

Quigley, who represents a solidly Democratic seat, said in an interview on MSNBC on Friday that Biden’s “legacy is set.” He added: “The only thing that you can do now to cement that for all time and prevent utter catastrophe is to step down and let someone else do this.”

Bill Harris, a former chief executive of Intuit and PayPal, said he is leading a small group of Democratic donors who have pledged $2 million to help fund presidential debates among potential nominees if President Biden decides to step aside.

When asked about how President Biden has been with world leaders, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Friday afternoon that he has been “very engaged” and is looking forward to the NATO summit in Washington next week. Jean-Pierre confirmed that Biden would do a news conference next week.

President Biden said on Friday that his debate performance last week — where he appeared slack-jawed, confused and at times incoherent — was the result of nothing more than fatigue and “a really bad cold.”

When ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos asked President Biden if he watched his June 27 debate with former president Donald Trump, Biden replied, “I don’t think I did, no.” Biden made the comment during an interview Friday, a portion of which was aired around 6:30 p.m. evening news broadcast. The full interview is expected to air Friday night at 8 p.m.

President Biden dismissed reports of an effort by Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) to rally Democratic senators to force the 81-year-old Democrat out of the race.

“Mark R. Warner, is my understanding, is the only one considering that,” Biden told reporters in Wisconsin on Friday, when asked about the effort, first reported by The Washington Post. “No one else has called me with that,” Biden added.

President Biden downplayed any effort to replace him on the ticket. “Every CEO has a succession plan,” a reporter noted, after asking whether Biden would let someone “younger take the country forward?”

“There is a succession plan. But what do I need a succession plan for now?” Biden replied.

After taping an interview with ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos that will be broadcast Friday night, Biden told reporters: “I thought it was a good interview.”

Over the past year, Vice President Harris has routinely praised President Biden’s fitness for office when she was asked about his age.

President Biden rebuffed calls to drop out of the presidential race, saying he won the nomination because that is what countless voters decided.

“I’m a nominee to this party because millions of Democrats like you just voted for me in primaries all across America,” Biden said during a rally in Wisconsin on Friday. “You voted for me to be your nominee. No one else. You the voters. The voters did that.

Becky Beach, 60, watched Biden’s rally from the overflow room. After his speech, Biden popped in and spoke briefly.

“He looks good today,” Beach said, adding that she trusts “whatever Biden’s decision is” on whether to step aside.

“There’s a big difference between having a bad day and really going downhill, and the person who knows the difference is the individual,” Beach said. She said she used to be a doctor and stepped away because she “realized that [she] was cognitively not there like I was.”

“So I know that quitting is the hardest thing in the world to do,” Beach added.

Carolyn Remmert, a retiree leaving President Biden’s rally in Madison, said she understands calls to replace him on the ticket but came away from the event confident in his ability and reassured. “I’m comfortable,” she said. “He sounds pretty much like he’s not going anywhere.”

The crowd here at President Biden’s event in Madison is upbeat and loud, a contrast to some Democrats who appeared demoralized when we spoke to them recently in the city.

“We love you, Joe!” some people yelled as Biden acknowledged to the crowd problems with his debate performance. The crowd cheered especially loudly when Biden said, “I am running and gonna win again!”

Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) is attempting to assemble a group of Democratic senators to ask Joe Biden to exit the presidential race, according to two people with direct knowledge of the effort.

President Biden forcefully told supporters on Friday: “I am running and going to win again!”

During a rally in Madison, Wis., a crucial battleground state he narrowly won four years ago, Biden began by telling supporters: “Now you’ve probably heard we had a little debate last week. I can’t say it’s my best performance.”