WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Marcos Warner on Tuesday was contacting some fellow Democratic senators to invite them to a possible meeting on Monday to discuss the president Joe Bidenpresidential campaign, a source familiar told Reuters.
The source did not elaborate or say whether Warner was trying to organize a group of senators to pressure Biden to drop out of the race.
The Washington Post reported Friday that Warner was trying to bring together a group of Democratic senators who would call on Biden to end his presidential campaign.
Warner, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee and is vice chairman of the Senate Democratic Caucus, is a respected moderate from Virginia. Before being elected to the Senate in 2008, he served as governor of Virginia from 2002 to 2006.
Warner’s publicists were not immediately available for comment. Neither did aides to some of the Senate’s top Democratic leaders, including Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
(Reporting by Richard Cowan; Editing by Chris Reese and Daniel Wallis)
