Senate Intelligence Committee chair Mark Warner is trying to get a group of Democratic senators together to convince Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential race, according to reporting on Friday from The Washington Post.
This hit the news cycle as Biden, who has reportedly been insulated from talking with Democrats outside his inner circle, doubled down on his intent to stay in the race, telling a Wisconsin rally that he is “staying in the race.”
“Millions of Democrats like you just voted for me, in primaries all across America, you voted me to be your nominee, no one else, you, the voters,” Biden said, adding criticism of “some folks” who “don’t seem to care who you voted for” and are “trying to push me out of the race.”
Warner would be the highest-profile Democrat, by an order of magnitude, among those “some folks.”
The story in the Post reported that Warner is trying to arrange a meeting with a group of Democratic senators and Biden early next week to “air candid concerns in person.”
Warner, according to the report, has been telling top Democrats privately that Biden can’t remain in the presidential race in the wake of the president’s concerning performance in last week’s CNN debate with ex-president Donald Trump.
Trump’s lead in the FiveThirtyEight.com polling average has grown from two-tenths of a point to 2.5 points since the debate, which featured a dazed and confused Biden, at one point, declaring victory over Medicare, and delivering a brutal self-own on border security in an answer to a question on women’s reproductive rights.
Biden has since tried to blame the poor debate performance on trips to Europe weeks before, then a cold, and he told a group of Democratic governors on Wednesday that he “needs to get more sleep and work fewer hours, including curtailing events after 8 p.m.,” according to a report in The New York Times.
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