'It's Only a Matter of Time': President Joe Biden Likely to Drop Out of 2024 Race, Insider Claims

After a disastrous debate, it looks like President Joe Biden could be calling it for good.

According to TMZ, one top campaign official is privately telling at least one mega-donor that "it's only a matter of time" before the 81-year-old drops out of the race.

The official said they are focusing from support for Biden into "Democrats have to The White House."

The official said Biden wants the dust to settle after the debate and understand the poll trends — but "there's little hope the polls are going to improve."

As OK! previously reported, Biden struggled during the debate against Donald Trump, going on to freeze multiple times and lose his train of thought.

Despite the harsh criticism, Biden tried to make light out of the situation.

“I think we did well,” Biden said post-event.

“No. It’s hard to debate a liar. The New York Times pointed out he lied 26 times,” he said, noting he had a sore throat.

"These are people, several of them, who are very close to President Biden, who love him, have supported him – among them are some people who have raised a lot of money for him – and they are adamant that what we saw the other night, the Joe Biden we saw, is not a one-off. That there have been 15, 20 occasions in the last year-and-a-half when the president has appeared somewhat as he did in that horror show that we witnessed, and what’s so significant is the people that this is coming from and also how many people around the president are aware of such incidents, including some reporters, incidentally, who witness some of them," Bernstein said during an appearance on Anderson Cooper 360 on Monday, July 1, just a few days after the debate took place.

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Bernstein claimed the insiders spoke to former White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, who supervised Biden's debate prep, about the president's "problem," but were "pushed back repeatedly" when it was brought up.

“There have been numerous instances where the president has lost his train of thought [and] can’t pick it up again,” Bernstein claimed. “There was a fundraiser in which he started at the podium, and then he became very stiff, according to the people there, as if it were almost a kind of rigor mortis set in.”