Hey there from CNN, I'm Chris de Boe with the Five Things You Need to

Know for Friday, July 5th. Unscripted events, a so-called

aggressive travel schedule, and a 5050 million ad buy,

those are the pillars of the Biden campaign's new plan

to save his re-election bid.

After President Joe Biden's poor debate performance

last week, he's struggling to reassure voters, donors, and his party that he's fit for a second term.

Today is a crucial day for the president as he campaigns and sits down with ABC's George

Stephanopoulos for his first TV interview since the debate. He's also making stops in the battleground states of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania

with Vice President Kamala Harris, who says she's behind Biden.

But as CNN's Edward Isaac Dauver reports, many in the party are already talking behind the scenes

to see what a potential plan B would look like.

Hi Krista, amid the ongoing fallout

from Joe Biden's debate performance,

talk in many top Democratic circles has already moved

to who Kamala Harris's running mate would be.

That's how certain a widening group of leading party officials, operatives and donors are that the

president's slow start to salvage his campaign just won't work

with several close allies skeptical that he's up to the re-election he has pledged to stay in

based on CNN's conversations with two dozen Democratic politicians and

operatives.

Biden always says not to compare him to the almighty but to the alternative.

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