Top Democrats say the President is becoming resigned to the inevitable amid rising pressure and untenable scrutiny over his acuity
President Joe Biden walks down the steps of Air Force One at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. He has been diagnosed with Covid-19 at a crucial moment in his re-election campaign Joe Biden could be forced to end his re-election bid as soon as this weekend, according to reports, amid renewed and relentless pressure from senior Democrats and close friends to drop out of the race.
But after several days during which Democrats held back on urging Mr Biden to quit, their renewed intervention appears to mark a turning point.President Biden greets patrons at Linda Michoacan Mexican Restaurant during a campaign stop in Las Vegas on Wednesday One source said Ms Pelosi’s call – the second conversation between the two since the president’s debate against Trump on 27 June – had taken place in the past week. Ms Pelosi’s office told CNN she had not been in touch with the President since Friday., although in the past few days he is reported to have become more receptive to hearing arguments urging him to step aside.
On Wednesday Representative Adam Schiff, who is running for the US Senate in California, became the most prominent elected Democrat to publicly call on Mr Biden to drop out, and the first to do so since the
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