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Biden Tries to Slow Defections With Press Conference
WASHINGTON—President Biden held a high-stakes news conference Thursday in which he was forceful and defiant, vowing to pursue re-election and finish the job he started, but he also made some flubs as he tried to slow a stream of Democratic defections that …