While more than one in 10 congressional Democrats have now publicly called on the president to step aside, Joe Biden said he will renew his campaign next week.
urged him to end his floundering campaign, fearing that it could cost the party dearly in the November 5 election.
, who accepted the Republican nomination in a rambling speech that featured his familiar mix of grievance and bombast.So far, 30 of the 264 Democrats in Congress have openly called for Biden to end his campaign, while other senior Democratic leaders have pushed him behind the scenes to do so, according to sources and media reports.
Democrats are increasingly worried about a Republican sweep in the November 5 election that could leave Trump and his allies not only in charge of the White House but also with majorities in both chambers of Congress. “We have a lot of work to do to make sure that we are reassuring the American people that, yes, he’s old, but he can do the job and he can win,” she said on MSNBC.
At the convention in Milwaukee, Trump delivered a dramatic account of the attempt on his life by a gunman at a Pennsylvania rally last Saturday and sought to appeal to undecided voters with a promise to be a president for “all of America, not half of America”.
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