JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — President Joe Biden joined ABC News for his first sit-down interview since last week's presidential debate.
This comes amid calls from some Democrats for the president to bow out of the race following concerns about his age and capacity to run the country.
Three democratic representatives have called for Biden to drop out of the race, but the vast majority of Democrats still support the president in his re-election bid.
Tracie Davis represents Jacksonville in the Florida State Senate and received commitments to become the next minority leader in the State Senate. She said she still supports President Biden, but does have some concerns about the direction of the party as a whole.
A week after the first presidential debate State Senator Tracie Davis was in Springfield for an annual Fourth of July baseball game and the future leader of the democrats in the Florida State Senate isn't sounding any alarms about President Biden.
"It was a bad night, he's even said, 'Yes it was a bad night,'" said Davis, "but we don't remove a person from a job just because they had a bad day at work."
The nation seems to disagree. On July 3, a New York Times and Siena College poll of 1,500 registered voters showed that 74% of respondents thought Joe Biden is too old to be an effective president. That same poll showed that only 43% of respondents thought Donald Trump is too old to be an effective president.
"When you've got a candidate who is over 80 years old and would be 86 by the end of his term, it's very tough to imagine him serving out a full eight years," said AG Gancarski, a reporter for FloridaPolitics.com.
Gancarski also contributes to the New York Post and regularly writes about the two oldest candidates to ever run for president.
"Donald Trump has a similar issue," said Gancarski. "Trump is 77, if he were to get elected in '24 he'd be 81 at the end of his term and we'd be talking about these capacity issues."
While Biden is the target of claims about cognitive ability, Trump was recently convicted of felonies for falsifying business records and faces further legal issues.
Davis supports Biden for president and his campaign recently opened a headquarters in Jacksonville. But she does think the democratic party as a whole needs to do a better job of appealing to younger voters.
"I do feel like the amendments that we have here on the ballot in Florida with abortion access and adult use for marijuana will resonate with them and so I think that will be our goal to turn out our younger voters," said Davis.
But the question remains whether those younger voters in Florida will support President Biden in November.
"It's always going to be in play no matter what is said and what is done," said Davis. "Florida will always be on the table as a swing state, I've always believed that and feel that for any candidate, especially Joe Biden, we have to win Florida."