Top Democrats have told Axios that President Joe Biden might drop out as early as this weekend.
I doubt Lady Macbeth Jill and Hunter will allow that to happen.
Behind the scenes: The private message, distilled to its bluntest form: The top leaders of his party, his friends and key donors believe he can’t win, can’t change public perceptions of his age and acuity, and can’t deliver congressional majorities.
- The president is being told that if he stays in, former President Trump could win in a landslide and wipe away Biden’s legacy and Democrats’ hopes in November.
State of play: The pressure to step aside as a candidate has been rising to intolerable levels, especially over the past few days.
- Democrats fully expect polls after the Republican National Convention to show a possible blowout that could bring down Democrats in Congress, too.
- “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,” one of the president’s close friends told us. “I pray that he does the right thing. He’s headed that way.”
- Yesterday’s AP poll, showing nearly two-thirds of Democrats want Biden to withdraw from the presidential race, ricocheted through the White House and Congress.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) became the 21st Congressional Democrat to call for Biden to step aside.
After Biden announced he has COVID, ABC dropped the news that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told him over the weekend that he should drop out.
Again, though, the Bidens won’t let him.
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