JOE BIDEN MUST STEPDOWN: Prominent Democrat Adam Schiff calls for President Joe Biden to withdraw, but party aims to nominate before the convention by Zeke Miller, Will Weissert, and Lisa Mascaro
“Last night was a game changer. And the change that now has to come is to produce another game changer, which is a new Democratic candidate.” In an emergency episode of The Rest Is Politics, Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell follow on from Katty Kay and Anthony Scaramucci’s reaction to Joe Biden’s “horrific” performance in CNN’s presidential debate against Donald Trump.
California Rep. Adam Schiff on Wednesday became the highest-profile Democrat to call for President Joe Biden to drop his reelection bid, even as the party pushed ahead with plans for a virtual vote to formally make Biden its nominee in the first week of August.
The move to schedule the roll call, which would come weeks before the Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago on Aug. 19, follows nearly 20 Democratic members of Congress calling on Biden to withdraw from the presidential race in the wake of his dismal debate performance against Republican former President Donald Trump last month.
Late in the evening, ABC News reported new details about Biden’s private meeting over the weekend with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer at his beach home in Delaware. It said Schumer told the president it would be “better for the Democratic party, and better for the country if he were to bow out.” To read more go to the link below:
