On July 7, 2024, US President Biden walked to the White House in Washington, DC after attending a campaign event in Pennsylvania.
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President Joe Biden will face reporters Thursday, a day after the first, in a separate news conference that could make or break his campaign. Democratic Senator There are growing calls for Biden to withdraw from the 2024 election, citing his “disastrous debate” with Donald Trump two weeks ago.
“In the interest of the country, I call on President Biden to withdraw from the race,” Vermont Sen. Peter Welch wrote in an op-ed on Wednesday. Washington post.
“The stakes could not be higher. We cannot ignore President Biden’s disastrous debate performance. We cannot ignore or ignore the valid questions that have been raised since that night,” Welch wrote.
In addition to Welch, 11 Democrats in the House of Representatives have publicly said that Biden should abandon the campaign and allow another Democrat to become the party’s nominee for the November election.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who retains her seat in the House and has strong influence in the chamber, declined on Wednesday to express her hope that Biden would remain in the race and suggested he might drop out, despite the recent He has insisted for two weeks that he would not do so.
“It’s up to the president to decide whether to run,” Pelosi told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “We’re all encouraging him to make that decision because time is running out.”
Biden is likely to be asked about Welch and Pelosi at a news conference, his first since the debate, scheduled for Thursday at 6:30 p.m. ET It begins at the end of a two-day NATO summit in Washington.
Biden may also face questions about whether he is healthy enough to serve a second four-year term.
On Wednesday, actor George Clooney, who attended a big Biden fundraiser in Los Angeles three weeks ago, wrote that the Biden he saw at that event “was not the Joe ‘Big Deal’ Biden of 2010… … He’s not even 2020 Joe Biden.
“He is the man we witnessed in the debate,” Clooney wrote in an article. New York Times The column urged Biden to drop out of the race.
“We will not win in November with this president,” Clooney wrote. “The bottom line is, we will not win the House and we will lose the Senate. This is not just my opinion; this is what speaks to me The views of every senator, congressman, and governor are shared privately by everyone, no matter what he or she says in public.
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