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Democrats are again asking President Biden to reconsider his candidacy

2024-07-18 16:14:31, Kosova & Bota CNA
Democrats are again asking President Biden to reconsider his candidacy
US President, Joe Biden. Source, AP

Concerned about President Joe Biden's ability to win the election this November, Democrats are urging him to reconsider running while he's away from the campaign trail due to contracting COVID-19.

Mr. Biden has insisted that he will not withdraw, convinced that he is the candidate who can beat former President Donald Trump again.

But publicly and privately, Democratic heavyweights are sending signals of concern, and some hope he will reassess the trajectory of the race and his legacy to lead the country.

Over the past week, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries spoke privately with the president, laying out the views of Democrats in Congress, including their concerns.

On Wednesday, California lawmaker Adam Schiff, a close ally of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, became the most high-profile House Democrat to call on Mr. Biden to withdraw from the race. He said that while he knows this decision rests solely with President Biden, he believes it is time for him to "pass the baton."

As tensions over Mr. Biden's ability to win eased somewhat, largely after the assassination attempt on Mr. Trump and as the Republican National Convention was being held in Milwaukee, Democrats know they have limited time to resolve the angst within the party after the poor showing. of Mr. Biden, in the first presidential debate.

Of course, many Democrats want Mr. Biden to stay in the race. And the Democratic National Committee is moving ahead with plans for a virtual vote to officially make Mr. Biden the party's nominee as early as the first week of August, ahead of the Democratic National Convention, which begins on August 19 in Chicago.

On Wednesday evening, ABC News released new details about Mr. Biden's private weekend meeting with Mr. Schumer at the president's Dellauer home.

According to the announcement, Mr. Schumer told the president that it would be "better for the Democratic Party and for the good of the country if he stepped down."

A spokesman for Mr. Schumer called the news pure speculation.

White House spokesman Andrew Bates said Mr. Biden had told Mr. Schumer and Mr. Jeffries that "he was the party's nominee and that he planned to win and looked forward to working with both of them to pass his agenda." 100 days, to help American families".

But among Democrats nationwide, nearly two-thirds say Mr. Biden should step aside and let his party nominate another candidate, according to a new poll by the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research as and the news agency 'AP'. This strongly contradicts Mr. Biden's claim after the debate that "ordinary Democrats" continued to support him even as "big names" in the party opposed him.

With Mr. Schiff's reaction, the number of Democratic lawmakers in Congress who have called on Mr. Biden to withdraw from the presidential race reaches 20.

In response to Mr. Schiff's comments, Mr. Biden's campaign officials pointed to what they called "broad support" for the president for the race from members of Congress in battleground states, as well as from African-American and Hispanic members of Congress. .

Mr. Schiff's announcement came after Mr. Schumer and Mr. Jeffries encouraged the party to delay by a week plans to hold a virtual vote to nominate Mr. Biden as the nominee, which could happen as soon as Sunday, according to two people with knowledge of the matter and spoke on condition of anonymity.

The Democratic National Committee's rules committee meets Friday to discuss how virtual voting will work and finalize the issue next week.

"We will not implement a rushed virtual voting process, but we will begin a significant process of reconsidering how virtual voting would work," read a letter released Wednesday from Bishop Leah D. Daughtry and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, co-chairmen of the regulation commission in the Democratic National Assembly./ VOA





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