NEW YORK — President Joe Biden has a new problem: a competitive race in deep blue New York.

Elected officials, union leaders and political consultants are panicking over polls showing a steady erosion of Biden’s support in a state he won by 23 points four years ago. They’re so worried they’ve been trying to convince the Biden team to pour resources into New York to shore up his campaign and boost Democrats running in a half-dozen swing districts that could determine control of the House.

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Joe Biden worked to reassure nearly 200 mayors Tuesday that he was up to the challenges of a second term — just as a Colorado lawmaker became the first Democratic senator to publicly express doubts about the president’s electability.

Biden opened the 45 minute Zoom call with members of the Democratic Mayors Association by admitting he flubbed his debate against Donald Trump nearly two weeks ago.

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Poland’s leader came to Washington with a simple message that doesn’t depend on who is in the White House: The Cold War is back.

President Andrzej Duda, who dined in New York with former President Donald Trump this spring, said he will be happy to work with whomever U.S. voters choose as their next president — as long as that person shares his goals of securing Europe from Russia.

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DORAL, Florida — Former President Donald Trump repeatedly name-dropped Sen. Marco Rubio throughout his rally here on Tuesday night, leaving the crowd in suspense over who he’d pick as running mate — while also seemingly toying with the vice presidential hopeful.

Trump pulled the rumors surrounding his running mate into the open early in his 75-minute speech. “They’ll probably be thinking that I’ll be announcing Rubio as my vice president,” he said about the journalists gathered to cover the rally, “because that’s a lot of press.” Trump, who withheld naming his running mate, then moved on to a rant about President Joe Biden and the economy.

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After enduring days of blowback from Hill Democrats privately panicked about his debate flop, President Joe Biden decided to give his doubters an ultimatum: Speak up or shut up.

At least for now, the vast majority of Democratic lawmakers are shutting up.

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Joe Biden is down 6 percentage points against Donald Trump in the key battleground state of Wisconsin, with older voters tilting toward the Republican, according to an AARP post-debate poll released Tuesday.

As Democrats deal with infighting over the president’s age and fitness to serve after his disastrous debate performance less than two weeks ago, the poll shows Trump leading Biden in a full ballot test, 44 percent to 38 percent.

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House Democrats spent Tuesday morning privately venting to each other about President Joe Biden's future. It left them no closer to resolving the split that has consumed their party.

In a closed-door caucus meeting hosted at Democrats' campaign headquarters, increasingly distressed Democrats spoke candidly to each other for the first time since Biden's unnerving debate performance. Several lawmakers who have already called for Biden to step aside made their case, provoking a larger block of the caucus that believes Democrats need to stay united behind the president, according to about a half-dozen members in the room.

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President Joe Biden’s accusation that “elite” Democratic critics are out of step with his party appears to have provoked the New York Times editorial board, which is doubling down on its post-debate call for Biden to get out of the race.

In a piece published Tuesday that rebutted the president’s defense of his candidacy in recent days, the editorial board explicitly urged Democratic leadership to publicly call for Biden to step aside and coalesce around a new nominee in order to defeat former President Donald Trump. The board described the current “whisper campaign” in the party as an inadequate attempt to convince Biden to withdraw, calling him not only “defiant” and “floundering,” but “a man in decline” trying to circumvent the reality that he is a damaged candidate.

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A top Democratic pollster has a new survey showing President Joe Biden still in contention against Donald Trump, but at further risk of losing the election — with other leading Democrats now surging ahead.

The national poll, conducted and commissioned by the firm Bendixen & Amandi after Biden’s politically disastrous debate and shared exclusively with POLITICO, found Biden trailing Trump, 42 percent to 43 percent.

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NATO is confronting a military threat from Russia and homegrown political attacks from candidates on the far right and far left.

Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre of Norway thinks the alliance can weather the moment.

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Donald Trump predicted Monday that a beleaguered Joe Biden would remain the Democratic nominee — and speculated that Kamala Harris would replace the president if he did exit the race.

“It looks to me like he may very well stay in. He’s got an ego, and he doesn’t want to quit. He doesn’t want to do that,” Trump said in an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News, the former president’s first TV interview since last month's debate with Biden.

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President Joe Biden’s outreach efforts to congressional Democrats haven’t quelled the party-wide panic over his future on the ticket — and the fight is about to get uglier.

Biden spoke Monday night with some of his most loyal supporters, telling a group of Black lawmakers: “You’ve had my back and I’ll continue to have yours,” according to a person in the meeting. He plans to meet soon with a rattled group of House progressives. He personally called roughly 20 individual members over the past week, according to a campaign official. And he sent a letter to Democrats Monday morning forcefully committing to staying in the race.

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President Joe Biden is leaning on the credibility of White House physician Kevin O’Connor’s optimistic assessment of his health, but that physician is a family intimate and one-time business associate of the president's brother.

When Biden’s brother Jim was exploring a business venture aimed at securing Veterans Affairs contracts in 2017, O’Connor introduced him to a military-focused medical team and accompanied him to a meeting with a hospital president.

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Donald Trump’s allies are moving to capitalize on Joe Biden’s stumbles.

A big-spending super PAC linked to Republican mega-donor Miriam Adelson is set to spend $61 million on TV and digital ads attacking Biden, as the besieged president faces calls from within his own party to step aside following his disastrous debate performance.

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