Team Biden rushes to control damage
Business Standard|July 04, 2024
President Biden and his advisers rushed to stem the first serious defections inside the Democratic Party since his shaky debate last week, as leading Democrats lent legitimacy to questions about his mental acuity and raised the specter of replacing him atop the ticket.
LISA LERER, SHANE GOLDMACHER & MAGGIE HABERMAN
Team Biden rushes to control damage

Biden's operation hoped to assert fresh control on Wednesday, holding a call with a group of Democratic governors, in person and virtually, as he seeks to shore up support after days of private hand-wringing went public in sudden and quick succession.

On Tuesday, Biden suffered his first formal call to resign from the race from a Democratic member of Congress. The key Black lawmaker whose endorsement helped lift Biden to the nomination in 2020 said he would back the vice president if Biden "were to step aside." And former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said after Biden's halting debate performance that it was "a legitimate question to say, 'Is this an episode or is this a condition?""

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