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President Biden and former President Donald Trump issued competing remarks following the first presidential debate of the 2024 campaign on Thursday.

United States Vice President Kamala Harris appeared at a rally in Las Vegas, Nevada on Friday and went on the attack against Donald Trump. (AP produced by Javier Arciga)

On Friday, the day after the first 2024 presidential debate, House Democrats and Republicans weighed in on the performances of President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump clashed in the presidential debate. Here is what happened.

ABC News' Selina Wang and Alex Presha discuss what voters are saying regarding President Joe Biden's debate performance and the next step on former President Donald Trump's agenda.

President Biden delivered an unsteady performance in the first presidential debate against an uncharacteristically subdued Donald Trump. WSJ’s Damian Paletta breaks down their performances.

STORY: The first televised debate between U.S. President Joe Biden, and his Republican rival, former President Donald Trump saw a shaky, tentative performance from Biden that rattled Democrats. While Trump battered him with falsehoods and the two oldest U.S. presidential candidates ever descended into an exchange of personal insults. TRUMP: “The whole country is exploding because of you." BIDEN: "My son was not a loser. Was not a sucker. You're the sucker. You're the loser.” Appearing on CNN's Presidential Debate on Thursday, four months before Election Day in November, the two traded barbs on abortion, inflation, the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, even their golf games, as they aimed to shake up what opinion polls show has been a virtually tied race for months. A hoarse-sounding Biden stumbled in the debate's first half-hour, and Trump pounced: BIDEN: "Excuse me, with - dealing with - everything we had to do with - look if - we finally beat Medicare." TRUMP: "He was right. He did beat Medicaid, he beat it to death." Eighty-one-year-old Biden and 78-year-old Trump are under pressure to show they're fit for office. As the debate wore on, Trump issued a barrage of critiques - many of them, well-worn falsehoods.. ... including migrants carrying out a crime wave and that Democrats support infanticide. Studies show immigrants do not commit crimes at a higher rate than native-born Americans. Trump also dodged questions about the January 6 Capitol attack, refused to accept any responsibility and claimed that many of those arrested were innocent. BIDEN: "What he's telling you is simply not true. The fact is that there was no effort on his part to stop what was going on up on Capitol Hill. And all those people, every one of those convicted deserves to be convicted." The debate carried on with no live audience and strict rules on microphone use, which aimed to avoid chaos that roiled their first debate in 2020. Still, the pair took every chance to make jabs at each other: TRUMP: "I wasn't really going to run until I saw the horrible job he did. He's destroying our country." Biden went after Tump over his felonies. BIDEN: "You have the morals of an alley cat.” TRUMP: “I didn't have sex with a porn star.” While concerns about the eligibility for office weigh heavily for both candidates, Biden's performance Thursday could land a major blow to his campaign, at least in the short term. Two White House officials said that Biden had a cold. One top Biden donor, who did not want to be named, called the U.S. President's performance "disqualifying" and expects a fresh round of calls for him to step aside ahead of the party's national convention in August. A Reuters-Ipsos poll that ended Sunday showed voters think Trump is a better candidate for the economy and immigration matters, while Biden had the edge over Trump for responding to threats to democracy.

STORY: ::June 27, 2024 ::Biden says 'we need to beat this guy' while dropping into post-debate event ::Atlanta, Georgia “Look, folks, what's going to happen over the next couple of days is they're going to be, they're going to be out there fact checking, all the things he said. I can't think of one thing he said that was true. Oh, I'm not being facetious. But look, we're going to beat this guy. We need to beat this guy. And I need you in order to beat him. You're the people I'm running for. (Audience chanting: “We need you”) He says he's going to be the retribution for his supporters. You are the reason why America is as good as we are. We're the finest nation in the whole damn world. Nobody’s close. Let's keep going." Biden told the audience that Trump had lied throughout the debate, and that fact checkers would bear that out in the coming days. Earlier, in the first presidential debate of the 2024 race, the two men traded barbs on abortion, immigration, the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, their handling of the economy and even their golf games as they each sought to shake up what opinion polls show has been a virtually tied race for months.

ABC News’ Mary Bruce shares the Biden campaign’s mood and the fallout after the president’s performance and ABC News’ Jon Karl shares the Trump campaign’s reaction to the night.

President Joe Biden and Republican Donald Trump went right to mixing it up on policy — and each other — in their first presidential debate of the 2024 campaign.

Former President Donald Trump and sitting President Joe Biden go head-to-head in first presidential debate in Atlanta.

Between 100 and 150 people packed a room inside a suburban Detroit convention hall for a debate watch party hosted by the pro-Donald Trump Michigan Conservative Coalition (AP video: Mike Householder)

Voters at presidential debate watch parties in Michigan and Las Vegas weighed in on their reactions to the debate. (AP video by Mike Householder and Ty ONeil)

CBS News fact-checked some of the claims President Biden and former President Donald Trump made during Thursday's presidential debate. CBS News' Major Garrett breaks down three quick fact-checks.