Four days after a debate performance that’s prompted wide-ranging calls for him to step aside for a younger candidate, President Joe Biden’s campaign is urging voters to focus on his experience instead of his age.

What You Need To Know

  • In a new ad, President Biden’s campaign is urging voters to focus on his experience instead of his age

  • "I know I'm not a young man, but I know how to do this job," the president said

  • The ad highlights his speech to enthusiastic supporters at a rally in North Carolina the day after the debate

  • Biden is facing wide-ranging calls to step aside for a younger candidate following the CNN Presidential Debate

“Folks, I know I’m not a young man, but I know how to do this job,” the president posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, on Monday promoting a new 60-second ad for the Biden-Harris campaign.

The ad highlights his speech to enthusiastic supporters at a rally in North Carolina the day after the debate.

“I know right from wrong. I know how to tell the truth. And I know like millions of Americans know, when you get knocked down, you get back up,” he said in an ad that begins by showing former President Donald Trump at the podium during the CNN Presidential Debate in Atlanta last Thursday.

“Did you see Trump last night?” Biden asks. “I mean this sincerely, the most lies told in a single debate.”

In the ad, Biden calls out Trump for lying about his handling of the economy, the pandemic and what he said was the former president’s biggest lie: How he had nothing to do with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

“We all saw it with our own eyes,” Biden said in an ad that closed with him shaking hands with workers.

Per the campaign, the 60-second spot will air on networks with younger audiences, including  ESPN, TNT, Bravo, FX, Freeform and Comedy Central, as well as during sports programming and other programming with high viewership, including the season premiere of ABC's "The Bachelorette" next week. A shortened version of the ad will air on digital platforms, the campaign added.

The ad debuted just hours before the Supreme Court ruled on Trump's immunity claim in a case accusing him of working to subvert the results of the election.

"Americans deserve a president who doesn’t back down from a fight, and that’s Joe Biden," Biden-Harris 2024 Communications Director Michael Tyler said about the ad in a statement, adding: "Donald Trump stands against every value that our country stands for. He’s a liar, a crook, and he will always put himself first. The American people deserve better than Trump’s failed leadership and trademark lies, and this ad is just one more way we will be making the choice they will face at the ballot box this November all the more clear."

Since Thursday's debate, the campaign said it has raised $33 million, including $26 million from grassroots donors.