Senate Majority Leader URGES BIDEN To Drop Out Before It’s Too Late

Daily Report July 18,2024

New reports claiming that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer “forcefully” urged President Joe Biden to abandon the 2024 Democratic ticket has Schumer ffering clarification.

“Schumer forcefully made the case that it would be better for Biden, better for the Democratic Party, and better for the country if he were to bow out,” ABC News’ Jonathan Karl said on air Wednesday while reporting live from the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

The Democratic National Committee stated Wednesday morning that it had postponed plans to nominate Biden virtually for a second term, following Schumer’s private call to fellow Democratic Party leaders to give them additional time to consider.

A source close to Schumer and Biden told The Post that they met in person this past Saturday at the president’s vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. They specifically discussed fresh polling data indicating that Biden was even more widely unpopular in targeted Midwestern and Southern swing districts.

Information from the Senate and House sides has been leaked as one senior congressional source put it: “Down-ballot Dems can only run so far behind a nominee who is losing in every swing state.”

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President Joe Biden told Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) in a conversation this week that he’s not going anywhere, the White House said Wednesday night.

“The President told both leaders he is the nominee of the party, he plans to win, and looks forward to working with both of them to pass his 100 days agenda to help working families,” a White House spokesman told multiple news outlets.

Since the president’s June 27 debate catastrophe against Donald Trump and the NATO summit in Washington, DC, calls for Biden to bow out of the nomination have reached a fever pitch.

During media interviews in the weeks since that debate debacle, Americans have been treated to more incoherent remarks in the same tired, raspy voice. Democratic lawmakers have come out, both publicly and privately, to address concerns.

“He’d start an answer then lose his train of thought, then would just say ‘whatever.’ He really couldn’t complete an answer. I lost a ton of respect for him,” one person told Puck News.

The same day, California Representative Adam Schiff became the 21st Democrat to demand Biden retire from consideration on “electability grounds” because he has raised questions.

Schiff commented that the 2024 race “should not be even close” because the Democratic party leader was “running against a criminal.”

Pelosi said in an interview on MSNBC that “we’re all encouraging him to make that decision because time is running short.”

While it is unclear what Biden might think with respect to backing Vice President Kamala Harris as his successor if he decides against a campaign of his own, CNN reported on Wednesday that “private conversations” between the White House and Capitol Hill are indicating Biden has become more receptive to an alternative candidate.

“He’s gone from saying, ‘Kamala can’t win,’ to ‘Do you think Kamala can win?” a senior Democratic adviser told the outlet.