Biden was spending Sunday with family members at Camp David, the reclusive presidential retreat near Washington, for a visit that had been scheduled before his face-off with Trump.

Immediately after the debate, Biden and first lady Jill Biden made a two-day campaign and fundraising swing that included receptions with deep-pocketed donors in New York’s Hamptons and New Jersey.

“I understand the concern about the debate,” Biden said Saturday at the oceanfront Hamptons estate of hedge fund manager Barry Rosenstein and his wife, Lizanne, who hosted him at a fundraiser. “I get it. I didn’t have a great night.”

Biden’s campaign said Sunday it had raised more than $33 million since Thursday, with $26 million coming from grass-roots donations. Thursday was the best grass-roots fundraising day yet and Friday was the second-best, according to the campaign.

While Biden, 81, acknowledged after the debate that voters might have concerns about his age, he has vowed to stay in the race. Jill Biden, considered a key force in persuading him to run in 2020, said Friday she told her husband “we are not going to let 90 minutes define the four years that you’ve been president.”

CBS’s June 28-29 poll of 1,130 people has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.2 percentage points.

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(With assistance from Ian Fisher and Victoria Cavaliere.)

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