A spokesman for the Biden marketing campaign has responded to the viral Axios report that claims President Joe Biden could withdraw from the race as quickly as this weekend.
The report claimed that “it’s now when, not if” regarding the president exiting the race.
“We more and more hear prime Biden aides, together with ones who initially urged him to struggle on after his disastrous debate on June 27 — 21 days in the past — are saying it’s now when, not if, Biden pronounces he’s not working,” the report claimed.
The report cited the rising stress from his personal occasion to drop out — together with former President Barack Obama expressing his concern concerning the viability of his candidacy to fellow Democrat leaders.
The Washington Post reported on Thursday:
Former president Barack Obama has instructed allies in latest days that President Biden’s path to victory has drastically diminished and he thinks the president wants to significantly think about the viability of his candidacy, based on a number of folks briefed on his pondering.
“His selection is to be considered one of historical past’s heroes, or to make sure of the truth that there’ll by no means be a Biden presidential library,” an unnamed “shut good friend” of the president instructed Axios. “I pray that he does the proper factor. He’s headed that means.”
Biden marketing campaign spokesman TJ Ducklo responded to the report with a defiant publish on X.
Joe Biden is his occasion’s nominee. He’s the President of america. He’s working for reelection. Baseless conjecture from nameless sources isn’t a scoop. Tonight a convicted felon will speak about how he’ll make folks’s lives worse if he positive factors energy. Let’s focus. https://t.co/RZBb9k6g9d
— TJ Ducklo (@TDucklo) July 18, 2024
“Joe Biden is his occasion’s nominee. He’s the President of america. He’s working for reelection. Baseless conjecture from nameless sources isn’t a scoop,” Ducklo wrote. “Tonight a convicted felon will speak about how he’ll make folks’s lives worse if he positive factors energy. Let’s focus.”
In accordance with stories, Senate Democratic Chief Chuck Schumer privately requested Biden to withdraw on Saturday. His assembly got here a few week after former Speaker Nancy Pelosi expressed her issues about him staying within the race.
Home Democratic Chief Hakeem Jeffries has additionally reportedly expressed his issues on to Biden.
Rep. Adam Schiff joined the refrain on Wednesday.
“President Biden has been some of the consequential presidents in our nation’s historical past, and his lifetime of service as a Senator, a Vice President, and now as President has made our nation higher. However our nation is at a crossroads,” Schiff instructed the Los Angeles Times. “A second Trump presidency will undermine the very basis of our democracy, and I’ve severe issues about whether or not the President can defeat Donald Trump in November.”
Schiff instructed the Occasions that the “option to withdraw from the marketing campaign is President Biden’s alone,” however he’s urging Biden “to cross the torch” and “safe his legacy of management” by stepping apart for somebody who can beat Trump.
The congressman instructed the newspaper that he would assist whoever is the nominee, even when it stays Biden.
Biden has repeatedly acknowledged that he’s not keen to step apart.