WASHINGTON — As President Joe Biden faces increasing calls to leave the presidential race from members of his own party, he’s sought to bolster his case for staying in by pointing across the Atlantic Ocean to another election that defied dire polling and panic on the center and left.

Speaking on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Monday, one day after France’s right-wing National Rally party and its allies finished third in seats won in France’s snap parliamentary elections, Biden contrasted…