Biden touts record in NBC interview – but the doubts won’t go away

As Trump basked in Republican adulation, Biden was still confronting the question he thought he'd answered

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In the shadow of the Republican national convention in Milwaukee, where Donald Trump officially became the party's nominee, days after surviving an attempt on his life, Joe Biden was still confronting a question he thought he'd answered: will he be the Democratic nominee in November?

1,000%" the president said in an interview with Complex's Chris Speedy" Morman, which aired on Monday. So the president would remain the party's standard-bearer, Morman asked? Unless I get hit by a train, yeah," Biden replied.