President Joe Biden (D) has tested positive for COVID-19 at a crucial moment in the 2024 election. As Republicans unify around the Trump-Vance ticket, Democrats are unifying in their call for President Biden to step down. The incumbent president has made it clear that he's in it to win it, but now top Democrats are suggesting that President Biden could exit the 2024 election race come this weekend.
Despite the insistence that he will not only stay in the race but also defeat President Donald Trump (R) in November, top Democratic members have privately and publicly called on the incumbent president to step down.
This week, ABC News reported that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D) privately met with President Biden in Rohoboth Beach, Delaware, over the weekend to urge him to drop out. Moreover, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D) is also reported to have met with the incumbent president, suggesting that polls show he cannot win and that Democrats will face a significant loss in the House.
In a new report from Axios, top Democrats have allegedly pressed President Biden to drop out of the race as early as this weekend, which begs the question, what will the Democratic ticket be heading into November?
According to Axios, a close friend of the president said that "his choice is to be one of history's heroes, or to be sure of the fact that there'll never be a Biden presidential library. I pray that he does the right thing. He's headed that way."
A poll conducted by the Associated Press showed that nearly two-thirds of Democrats believe that President Biden should step down.
President Barack Obama (D) is the latest Democrat to signal that the president should step down. He has reportedly told allies that President Biden's path to victory has greatly diminished and that the president should reconsider his candidacy.
