Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has joined the growing list of prominent Democrats who have called on President Joe Biden to leave the 2024 presidential race, according to a report from ABC News’ Jonathan Karl.
Karl reported on Wednesday that Schumer and Biden had spoken over the weekend, and that Schumer had “forcefully” made the case that it was best for both the Democratic Party and the country as a whole if he were not the nominee going forward.
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“The pressure from Democratic leaders for Biden to get out of the race is intensifying,” Karl said during ABC’s coverage of the Republican National Convention (RNC). “In fact, one person who has been out there publicly defending Biden told me just a short while ago Biden is going to see the whole house of cards come down soon.”
“As for that meeting in Rehoboth, Delaware, I am told that this was a one-on-one meeting, just the Senate Leader and the president, and that Chuck Schumer forcefully made the case that it would be better for Biden, better for the Democratic Party, and better for the country if he were to bow out of the race.”
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Karl then said that, in an effort to confirm the details he’d heard, he had gone to Schumer’s staff to ask about the meeting — and none of them had said anything that resembled denial.
“They only said this: ‘Leader Schumer conveyed the views of his caucus,’ in other words, the views of Democratic senators,” Karl concluded, adding that sources had also told him that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries had shared similar sentiments with Biden directly.
