Democrats again ask President Beden to reconsider candidacy

Concerned about President Joe Biden's ability to win the elections this November, the Democrats are urging him to reconsider the issue of running, while he is staying away from the campaign due to COVID-19.

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

But publicly and privately, heavy-weight democrats are sending signals of concern, and some hope he will make a re-evaluation of his race trajectory and heritage in running the country.

During the past week, the majority leader in the Senate, Chuck Schumer and the Democrat Leader of the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, spoke privately to the president, presenting the views of the Democrats in Congress, including their concerns.

On Wednesday, California lawmaker Adam Schiff, a close ally of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, became the highest profile Democrat in the House of Representatives, who called on Mr. Biden to withdraw from the race. He said that while he knows this decision belongs only to President Beden, he believes it is time for him to “have the staff”.

While tensions over Mr. Biden's ability to win calmed down somewhat, mainly after Mr. Trump's assassination attempt and while the Republican National Assembly was being held in Milwauki, the Democrats know they have limited time to resolve concern within the party following Mr. Biden's poor appearance in the first presidential debate.

Of course, many Democrats want Mr. Biden to stay in the race. And the National Democrat Committee is continuing with plans for a virtual vote, to make Mr. Biden officially a party candidate, as of the first week of August, before the National Democrat Assembly, which begins on 19 August in Chicago.

Wednesday evening, television network ABC News) provided new details about Mr. Biden's private meeting over the weekend with Mr. Schumer at the president's house in Dellauer.

According to the announcement, Mr. Schumer had told the president that it would be the best “for the Democratic Party and, in the best of the country, if he withdrew”.

A spokesman for Mr. Schumer called the news a complete speculation.

White House spokesman Andrew Bates said Mr. Biden had told Mr. Schumer as well as Mr. Jeffries that “ai was the party's appointer and that he planned to win and look forward to working with both, to pass his 100-day agenda, to helping American families”.

But among the Democrats across the country, nearly two-thirds say Mr. Biden should leave and allow his party to appoint another candidate, according to a new centre survey. NORCK for Public Affairs Field Research and news agency APUAP. This contradicts Mr. Biden's claim after the debate that the simple <x0-democrats” continued to support him, even though the party's “were opposed.

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

In response to Mr. Schiff's comments, officials of Mr. Biden's campaign pointed to what they called “broad support” that the president enjoys for the competition by Congress members in the battlefield states, as well as by the African and hispanic members of Congress.

Mr. Schiff's announcement came after Mr. Schumer and Mr. Jeffries encouraged the party to postpone with a week plans to hold the virtual vote to appoint Mr. Biden as a candidate, which could happen Sunday, according to two people who have knowledge of the issue and spoke on condition of anonymity.

The National Democrat Committee's regulation commission meets on Friday to discuss how the virtual vote will function and finalise the issue next week.

“We will not implement a hasty virtual voting process, but we will launch an important review process, how the virtual vote” would work, written in a letter published Wednesday by Bishop Leah D. Daughtry and the governor of Minnesota Tim Walz, co-chairman of the regulation commission at the National Democrat Assembly. / VOA