Some of the main advisers of Joe Biden’s electoral campaign met this Thursday (11) with Democratic senators to try to mitigate the growing opposition within the party itself to the United States president’s re-election attempt.
This comes on the same day that Biden will hold his first solo press conference in nearly eight months.
Biden’s campaign has been under pressure for two weeks, ever since the 81-year-old politician performed poorly in the Washington debate. CNN against former President Donald Trump, 78 years old.
The case fueled fears about his age and mental health, issues that had long worried voters in public opinion polls.
In a memo, Biden’s campaign said the debate did not dramatically change the race, and that it sought to win over undecided voters by shifting the focus of the discussion to Trump.
“No one is denying that the debate was a setback. But Joe Biden and his campaign have already overcome setbacks before”, highlights the text.
Democratic parliamentarians call on Biden to resign
Last week, several Democratic politicians called on Biden to drop out of the campaign, citing concerns that he could not only lose his White House seat but cost the party control of both houses of Congress.
Rep. Hillary Scholten of Michigan joined that group this Thursday: “This isn’t about the past, it’s about the future. It’s time to pass the torch,” she wrote on social media.
“It is essential to have the strongest possible candidate at the top of the ticket”, he commented.
She became the tenth Democratic congresswoman to call on the president to leave the election race. Furthermore, a senator from the party, Peter Welch, joined the list on Wednesday night (10).
But even so, several important parliamentarians have said that Biden should stay in the race.
Many others, including former Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, refused to say definitively whether the president should resign or remain at the head of the ticket.
Biden’s environment in doubt
Doubts seemed to be growing around Biden as well.
The New York Times reported that some longtime advisers to Joe Biden were considering ways to convince him to drop out of re-election, while NBC News reported that some campaign officials thought he had no chance of winning the election.
Several allies, including Biden’s campaign chairman, Jen O’Malley Dillon, are meeting with Democratic senators to try to increase support for the president in the legislative house, where he served from 1973 to 2009.
In the electoral strategy memo, Biden’s campaign argued that a tight race for the White House was always expected, and that it is possible to win by focusing on three key states: Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
This seems to indicate that these states will be prioritized over others that Biden won in 2020, such as Nevada, Georgia and Arizona.
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