Democrat becomes first to indicate Biden should RESIGN
A sitting Democrat in the House of Representatives was the first to suggest that President Joe Biden should resign over doubts about his “health and fitness for the job.”
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash., said ahead of Biden’s much-anticipated news conference on Thursday She also worries about whether he is actually the one making “important decisions about our country, rather than unelected advisers.”
“Americans deserve to feel that their president is fit for the job,” she continued in a statement to local channel KGW8.
“The crisis of confidence in the president’s leadership must end. The president must do what he knows is right for the country and put the national interest first.”
Her statement goes further than the 14 Democrats who have already called on Biden to withdraw from the 2024 race.
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash., said ahead of Biden’s highly anticipated news conference on Thursday that she has “doubts” about his “health and fitness to do the job.”
A sitting Democrat was the first to suggest in a stunning statement that President Joe Biden should resign
Two weeks after Biden’s abysmal performance in the debate against former President Trump, questions remain on Capitol Hill about whether his leadership will help or hurt Democrats on lower-tier ballots.
And now 14 elected Democrats have spoken out publicly, calling on Biden to drop out of the race.
Perez’s colleague, Rep. Adam Smith of Washington, was among the first sitting members of the House of Representatives to urge Biden to step down from the 2024 slate.
Amid the chaos, Biden campaign advisers Mike Donilon and Steve Ricchetti and Biden campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon organized a last-minute meeting with Democratic senators.
But lawmakers emerged from their closed-door meeting to discuss Biden’s political future with little cause for celebration. Most had more questions than they started with.
“Some of my concerns have been addressed, some of them have been deepened,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., told reporters after the closed-door meeting. “I need more of the kind of analysis that shows the path to success.”
“We need more data and analysis to address my concerns,” he said. “More important than my concerns are the questions raised by the American people.”
“I think Joe Biden needs to take on Donald Trump and address people’s concerns.”
“And I think he can do that, but he has to show the American people the stark contrast and the existential threat that Donald Trump poses to American democracy.”
Many politicians on Capitol Hill share Blumenthal’s concerns.
Another senator, Sherrod Brown of Ohio, spoke at a fundraising event earlier this week about his “nervousness” about the Democratic top spot, DailyMail.com has learned exclusively.
Earlier this week, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Biden’s favorite morning show on MSNBC that the president must decide whether he still wants to be the Democratic nominee.
The point is that a few days earlier he had sent a letter to all Democrats on Capitol Hill indicating that he planned to stay in the race despite concerns about his age and his performance in debates.
Her insistence that the president has not yet decided has led other Democrats to echo the former chairman’s sentiment that Biden should make his own decision.
Pelosi also said Biden should focus on his solo press conference at the 2024 NATO summit in Washington DC and consider whether to make a decision only after his much-anticipated speech.
According to reports, Democrats in Congress may turn against the president after his speech Thursday night, as they seek to undermine the country’s leader as he manages the delicate foreign relations.
“Tonight is going to be important,” Blumenthal said of the event.
“The press conference could potentially be a turning point. But it has to be more than just one press conference.”