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With Donald Trump leading Biden in seven swing states, Democrats are desperately looking to trim their losses and push Joe aside. Ella Johnson explains in The Spectator, writing:
The pressure is building for Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race. Donald Trump leads Biden nationally in seven swing states, according to a recent poll from Emerson College. The New York Times ran a piece yesterday entitled: “Biden called ‘more receptive’ to hearing pleas to step aside.” Several top Democrats privately told Axios that the rising pressure will persuade president Biden to drop out of the race as soon as this weekend. Former president Barack Obama told “allies” that Biden should reconsider the viability of his candidacy, reports the Washington Post. Meanwhile, Biden tested positive for Covid — for the third time. He is currently isolated in his beach house in Delaware, and will not be attending in-person meetings for the next few days.
Joe Biden is still committed to running, however. In recent days, Biden has said he would stand down if “the Lord Almighty” tells him to, if he “had some medical condition that emerged,” if he gets “hit by a train,” or if the polls say there is “no way for him to win.” If you want to stretch it, two of those things have already happened, and depending on which God you believe in — three. However, the New York Times article has described a little flexibility in Biden’s thinking — the president is willing to listen to new polling data and continues to ask questions about whether vice president Kamala Harris could win.
The NYT piece also addressed Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s appeal to party leaders to hold off on the “role call” — the virtual finalizing of Biden as the Democratic nominee before the DNC as a way to go around an Ohio law — which is now planned for the first week of August instead of late July, right before the DNC on August 19.
“Many of us are perplexed that he continues to say he’s either tied or winning in the polls,” Democratic representative Jared Huffman told NYT. “We don’t understand what factual universe that is coming from.” Publicly, twenty members of the House and one senator have called on the president to withdraw, but many more have expressed concerns privately.
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