Protesters outside White House call for Biden to ‘pass the torch’
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Independent Senator Joe Manchin has called on President Joe Biden, who is currently self-isolating at his beach house in Delaware after contracting COVID-19, to bow out of the 2024 race.
The West Virginia lawmaker is the fifth senator to make a public appeal for Biden to step down. Now, 37 Democratic and Independent lawmakers have publicly called for the president to leave the race.
“I came to the decision with a heavy heart that it’s time to pass the torch to a new generation,” Manchin said on Sunday.
Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris ran a call with 300 major donors on Friday night that left many “frustrated” and feeling the meeting was “mismanaged,” NBC News reports.
In the three weeks since his disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump, the 46th president has shrugged off ever-louder calls from within his own party to make way for a younger candidate to take on Trump in November.
Several influential Democrats, including Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer, reportedly called on Biden to drop out in private.
While the president has repeated in interviews that he is going nowhere, Axios has reported that he could drop out as soon as this weekend.
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Sarah Longwell, a GOP strategist and founder of Republican Voters Against Trump, said she has conducted several focus groups with swing voters since President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate last month.
Longwell said that many swing voters just want a younger candidate, but their preferences for Biden’s replacement are “all over the map.”
She also noted there is one group of voters that is the most dangerous for Democrats.
“The most alarming groups for Dems are the ones we’ve done with Clinton/Biden voters—regular Dem voters who are now undecided,” Longwell wrote on X. “Those groups also wanted Biden to step aside, and several people were third-party curious or talking about leaving by the top of the ticket blank.”
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Representative Ro Khanna, who is on the campaign trail for Joe Biden, says the president has a loyal coalition of voters who will continue to support him.
“Joe Biden actually has a coalition, African American women, blue-collar workers, seniors who voted for him,” Khanna said on ABC News on Sunday. “And if he feels bullied out, those voters are going to feel they were bullied out.”
Khanna also remarked on Independent Senator Joe Manchin’s call for Biden to drop out of the race.
“Second, I have tremendous respect for Senator Manchin, but you heard him say he’s a fiscal conservative and social compassion and he wants a more moderate ticket,” Khanna continued. “Well, you go run for president if you want that.”
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No longer officially a Democrat himself, Manchin is retiring at the end of this year rather than seek re-election. His seat in deep-red West Virginia is thought to be a likely pickup for Republicans, led by their nominee Jim Justice.
Despite leaving the party he was a member of for decades, Manchin continued to caucus with the Senate Democrats after registering as an independent this past May.
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