President Biden comes out in a show of force against pressure to step down from the top of the Democratic ticket

as Donald Trump tries to distance himself from a conservative plan to radically reshape the federal government.

Let's turn to our politics Monday duo.

It's Amy Walter of the Cook political report with Amy Walter

and Tam Rakeeth of NPR.

It's great to see you both on this Monday.

So Tam, President Biden, he hit the campaign trail over the weekend.

You were with him.

He called into MS NBC's Morning Joe this morning.

He's got a solo press conference pegged to the NATO summit on Thursday.

Take us inside this Biden strategy to do far more in unscripted situations to prove his fitness.

That's exactly what he's doing.

At the campaign headquarters where he spoke to supporters,

he did not speak from notes.

At one point, somebody shouted something

about Dark Brandon, which is like the laser eyes meme version of Joe Biden and he's like

Yeah, Dark Brandon is coming back and you're gonna hear a lot more about Donald Trump in the weeks ahead

He is clearly moving past the part of his rhetoric

where he says, well, I'm not as young as I used to be

and I've slowed down.

And he's on to the of pivoting a little bit to

part of the campaign and he really is also sort of pivoting a little bit to say

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