After nearly four years as the most powerful person in the world, four weeks after a disastrous debate, and four days after announcing he wouldn't seek another term in the White House, President Joe Biden on Wednesday defended his record and fought to remain relevant.
He outlined some big ambitions for his final months in office − ambitions that history and common sense say will be hard to achieve.
"I believe that my record as president, my leadership in the world, my vision for America's future, all merited a second term," the 46th president said in an 11-minute Oval Office address to the nation. He acknowledged that voters didn't seem to agree, though, that he was on a path to lose in November to an opponent he says would endanger democracy itself. "Nothing, nothing can come in the way of saving our democracy. That includes personal ambition."