The governor of President Biden’s home state led several other Democratic state officials in maintaining they will stick with their party’s incumbent after a debate performance that roiled the political scene.

Delaware Gov. John Carney told Fox News Digital he still supports Biden’s bid to remain in the White House.

“I endorsed President Biden’s re-election campaign last year and continue to stand behind him,” Carney said.

“We need to make sure President Biden can finish the job he started.”

Fox News Digital reached out to every Democratic governor and several state-level Democrats for their take after Biden received friendly post-debate fire from fellow liberals and media allies.

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Several governors did not respond to requests for comment, but those who did indicated Biden remains their man.

In West Virginia, State Democratic Party Chair Mike Pushkin said Biden is a winner and Trump is a criminal.

“As Democrats, we believe in the democratic process. President Biden is our nominee because of his winning performance in the presidential primaries,” he said.

“Donald Trump is a convicted felon who paid hush money to cover up an affair with a porn star and who helped incite a riot as part of a plot to overturn the results of a free and fair election,” added Pushkin, also a state lawmaker.

Instead of claiming Democrats should replace Biden, the GOP should turn inward, Pushkin added.

“If Republican leaders had an ounce of integrity and cared about our democracy, they should be looking to replace Donald Trump on the ticket,” he said.

In neighboring Pennsylvania, state Sen. Sharif Street, the commonwealth’s Democratic Party chair, said he will proudly continue to support Biden.

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“He’s created more jobs this year than Donald Trump has in his entire time in office,” said Street, whose father, John Street, was a popular Philadelphia mayor.

“President Biden has had an outstanding tenure, appointing Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court and protecting a women’s right to choose. Additionally, he has invested in our communities by passing the CHIPS Act and the infrastructure bill,” Street said.

Street added Trump is a “convicted felon” and that the debate showed him to be a “compulsive liar” and “total lunatic.”

“[He’s] bad for America,” Street said. “I’m proud to support President Biden and look forward to the next four years.”

Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro’s office pointed to an interview on CNN, where he appeared as a Biden campaign surrogate.

The governor, whose state narrowly went to Trump in 2016 and Biden in 2020, did not mince words about remaining behind his party’s nominee.

“Here’s the bottom line: Joe Biden had a bad debate night, but Donald Trump was a bad president,” Shapiro said.

“I think what the American people have to do now is make a decision: Do we want to go back to a dark time that Donald Trump promises, where we have less freedom, where the middle class gets screwed, where there are fewer opportunities in our community?” 

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Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz concurred with Shapiro during a Fox News interview when asked if Biden should remain the nominee.

“[He] had a bad night last night,” he said. “I hate these debates. I’ve been through dozens of them myself, but they’re performative,” Walz told “America’s Newsroom.”

“I’ve had the job under President Trump and under President Biden, and the difference couldn’t be more stark than the ability to be able to deliver what governors need.”

Colorado Democratic Gov. Jared Polis said “last night was not a good night” for Biden but added Trump instead “spewed wild conspiracy theories from the debate stage.”

“President Biden has a vision for America where women have the right to choose what they do with their own bodies, where we tackle high housing costs, where every family can afford child care, and where we show compassion and love for one another rather than hate,” Polis said.

President Biden and former President Trump (Getty Images)

While North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper did not respond to a request for comment, he later lauded and introduced Biden at a Raleigh campaign rally Friday afternoon.

Reached for comment on whether they will continue supporting Biden, an official with the North Carolina Democratic Party responded simply, “Yes.”

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office directed Fox News Digital to post-debate remarks in which the Democrat pledged to “never turn my back on President Biden.”

“I don’t know a Democrat in my party that would do so. And especially after tonight, we have his back,” he said.

Kansas Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly told Fox News Digital she’s proud to continue supporting him.

“While I have never been shy about standing up to Washington when it’s wrong for Kansas, the president’s record of delivering bipartisan results speaks for itself,” she said.

“His efforts will continue to allow Kansas to recruit new manufacturing businesses, rebuild our infrastructure, and stand up for our fundamental freedoms. He is a decent man of strong character.”

What is arguably Louisville, Kentucky’s most iconic dish had a most unusual beginning.

It was created by a chef who was bored with serving up the same meal night after night to hungry people who had just finished dancing, a hotel employee with knowledge of the topic told Fox News Digital.

In 1926, The Brown Hotel in Louisville had a nightly dinner dance, which brought in crowds of more than 1,200 each night, according to the hotel’s website. 

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As the night stretched into morning, the patrons danced up quite an appetite and went down to the hotel’s restaurant for a bite to eat, the website said.

The chef, Fred Schmidt, soon grew frustrated with serving ham and eggs, the popular dish at the time. So he decided to improvise with ingredients he had on hand, Marc Salmon, human resources director at The Brown Hotel, told Fox News Digital in a phone interview.

Schmidt sliced the crusts off a thick piece of bread and put them in a ceramic skillet. 

He sliced turkey and put it on top of the bread, sliced a tomato in half, and then poured Mornay sauce on top and stuck it under the broiler. 

When it emerged, he added even more cheese. 

The Hot Brown was born. 

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Nearly 100 years later, the Hot Brown is still being served at The Brown Hotel, largely unchanged from its original recipe – except that the dish now comes topped with two slices of bacon arranged in an X. 

Nearly a century later, it remains a culinary staple in Louisville and Kentucky. 

“Legend has it that a server … walked past it and said, ‘It’s all the same color,’” Salmon said. 

“And so Schmidt said, ‘Fine’ — and put two slices of bacon on the top.” 

The Hot Brown was immediately a hit, Salmon said. Nearly a century later, it remains a culinary staple in Louisville and Kentucky. 

The Hot Brown sandwich has since become an iconic food in Louisville and throughout Kentucky.  (Phil Vettel/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

“Whenever we hire a chef, we tell him, ‘You can do anything you want, but you can’t mess with the Hot Brown,’” Salmon said. “It’s got to be the original recipe.”

At The Brown Hotel, each Hot Brown sandwich is served with “seven ounces of hand-carved turkey breast,” Salmon told Fox News Digital. 

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“One of the things that makes our [sandwich] very different from the imitators is that it’s fresh turkey breast that we’re roasting here in the kitchen and hand carving,” he said.

Only one or two people at the hotel are permitted to make the Mornay sauce, Salmon said, so that it stays consistent across the day. 

“We serve it breakfast, lunch, dinner, [at] banquets, late night,” he said. 

Legend has it that the characteristic “X” of bacon strips was a later addition to the sandwich.  (Chris Witzke)

A Mornay sauce, Salmon said, is when shredded cheese is added to a béchamel sauce. 

In the case of the Hot Brown, the chef adds Pecorino Romano, as well as nutmeg.

The nutmeg is “an interesting little secret to the sauce,” he said. 

Salmon said he believes the Hot Brown has remained popular as it is “very authentic to the town.”

He also told Fox News Digital, “When you live and work in a town that produces a great spirit like bourbon, craftsmanship is really important in this town. I think the fact that it’s so uniquely ‘us’ is what’s kept it alive.” 

A scenic view of Louisville, Kentucky. “When you live and work in a town that produces a great spirit like bourbon, craftsmanship is really important in this town. I think the fact that it’s so uniquely ‘us’ is what’s kept it alive,” said Marc Salmon, human resources director at The Brown Hotel in Louisville, about the Hot Brown dish.  (Louisville Tourism)

Still, like many unique foods, the Hot Brown has its critics.

John Wise, an Ohio native who spent several years living and working in Louisville, recently shared on social media that he is “not a fan” of the Hot Brown.

“It’s a fork-and-knife operation.”

“Ingredients are all good, but why is it open-faced? Soggy bread is somehow good?” he wrote.

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And while the Hot Brown is technically a sandwich – albeit an open-faced one – it should not be eaten with one’s hands, Salmon said. 

“It’s a fork-and-knife operation,” he said. 

A teen is recovering from injuries to his right leg after a shark attack at a North Carolina beach on Sunday afternoon. 

North Topsail Beach Police Chief William Younginer told Fox News Digital that he raced to the scene in Onslow County, where 14-year-old Blayne Brown had been bitten.

“I ran up to an emergency on the beach. The [police] officers [also] ran out,” he said. “There was a 14-year-old male that had been bitten by a shark.”

The attack occurred around 12:30 p.m. at North Topsail Beach, near Beach Access No. 4 in Onslow County. 

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“We heard a lot of commotion and everybody yelling, ‘Get out of the water! Shark, shark!” witness Chasity Keeter told WRAL-TV. “It was really scary.”

Brown was reportedly visiting from West Virginia. 

“I was in the water, like screaming for help,” Brown told WWAY-TV3. “People just looked at me, and thought I was just screaming to be screaming. Like, I didn’t even know there was a shark that bit me. It just scared me so bad.”

The shark bit Brown twice, once on the leg and again on the ankle.

Fortunately, two police officers and an EMS officer were already present on the scene from a previous unrelated distress call.

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“Bystanders had pulled him out, and they were wrapping a towel around him and stopping the bleeding, which is the right thing to do,” Younginer said. “That’s [exactly] what they should have done.” 

A tiger shark swims in the Atlantic Ocean. (Reinhard Dirscherl/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Two officers applied a tourniquet to Brown, and he was transported to nearby Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune, where he is recovering from his injuries.

Younginer shared that shark attacks are extremely rare in the area.

“We have some people that step on a stingray, things like that, but we haven’t had [a shark attack],” he said. “I’ve been here since 2018. We haven’t had a shark bite.”

Younginer said Brown is expected to be released from the hospital soon.