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Democrats rule out replacement for President Biden

2024-06-30 22:58:57Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Democrats rule out replacement for President Biden
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Top Democratic leaders ruled out replacing President Joe Biden in the race for the White House on Sunday after a poor showing in the debate, while urging Democratic members to focus on the consequences of Republican Donald Trump's victory.

After exchanging accusations several days about Biden's performance and the outcome of the November election, Democratic leaders steadfastly rejected calls for their party to select a younger candidate to run in the presidential race.

Joe Biden, 81, spent Sunday at the Camp David presidential resort with family members, where his political future may have been one of the topics of conversation.

While calls continue for Biden to drop out of the race, a post-debate poll by CBS shows a jump from 36% in February to 46% now for Democrats who believe Biden should not run for president.

"Unfortunately, the truth is that Biden must withdraw from the race for the good of the country he has served so admirably for half a century," the Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial wrote on Sunday, stressing his retirement as necessary.

"Absolutely not," said Senator Raphael Warnock of Georgia, who is seen as one of the likely Democrats to replace Biden.

"Weak debates happen," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press" show. "The question is, when did Donald Trump work for others except himself and people like him? I stand with Joe Biden and it's our job to make sure he wins in November."

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who could become speaker next year if his party secures a majority in November, acknowledged Biden's poor performance in the first debate with Republican candidate Donald Trump.

"I believe a setback is nothing more than a trigger for a powerful comeback," he told MSNBC. "So the moment we're in right now is a moment of comeback and it will require our support to articulate a far-reaching message of why the Democratic platform is best equipped to address the challenges facing the American people."

Another senior Democrat in the House of Representatives, James Clyburn, agrees. "He has to stay in this race and he has to demonstrate that through his ability to lead the country," he told CNN.

Republicans sharply criticized Democrats' claims that poor performance is something that happens.

"The idea that Biden had a bad night is not the point. He's had a problematic presidency and a catastrophic debate," Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican from South Carolina, told CNN.

But during the presidential debate, Trump unleashed a barrage of criticism, many of them long-recurring untruths, among them claims of a wave of immigrant crime, that Democrats support the killing of newborn babies and that he actually won the 2020 election.


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