President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama walk along the West Colonnade of the White House Tuesday, April 5, 2022, after attending an Affordable Care Act event. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)
With friends like these? America’s top-ranking Democrats, including Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and others, are lining up to push Joe Biden out of the presidential race. The Washington Post reports:
The private but widely voiced doubts of the party’s top leaders — including Obama, former House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) — spilled into public view as people familiar with their thinking confirmed their growing sense of angst about Biden’s candidacy. And Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) became the second sitting senator calling on Biden to withdraw, after Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.).
Obama, seen by many Democrats as the party’s most influential figure, has told allies that Biden should think seriously about the viability of his reelection bid, The Washington Post reported. Pelosi has conveyed a similarly blunt message directly to Biden and his aides in recent days, and she has told some House Democrats she believes Biden can be persuaded fairly soon to exit the presidential race, according to three Democratic officials familiar with her private discussions.
Jeffries and Schumer, in separate private meetings with Biden last week, told him directly that his continued candidacy imperils the Democratic Party’s ability to control either chamber of Congress next year. The turmoil comes as polls suggest that Biden has slipped dangerously behind Republican nominee Donald Trump in swing states, Democratic donors signal they may start withholding support, lawmakers weigh a more public confrontation with the president next week — and Republicans put on a contrasting display of unity at their convention this week.
Taken together, the wave of public doubt surrounding Biden suggests a new, more serious phase in his bid to save his candidacy. As he self-isolates at his Rehoboth Beach, Del., home after testing positive for the coronavirus, the president appears more politically embattled than ever.
But his team is showing no public signs of reconsidering his reelection bid.
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