In full: Biden campaigns in Raleigh a day after presidential debate

Joe Biden will debate Donald Trump in September as planned, his advisers have said, defying calls for the president to drop out of the race. Following his poor performance in Thursday’s TV debate, the Democrat party entered panic mode with party donors turning on Mr Biden. “We’re so f----d,” a Democrat strategist in a battleground state said. “He has great material. He just cannot deliver a single line,” they told The Washington Post. According to poll averages, the race is neck-and-neck overall - but Trump is slightly ahead in the swing states. The former president now holds the edge in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, Arizona and Georgia - enough for him to win the Electoral College and, in turn, the presidency. California’s Gavin Newsom and Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer are topping the list of potential replacements amid frantic concern about the future of the campaign.