Democrats Aren’t Calling for Biden to Quit—Yet
Even some of his stalwart allies aren’t sure he should stay in the race.
Congressional Democrats aren’t ready to demand that President Joe Biden quit his bid for reelection after a debate performance that was almost universally panned. But for the first time, some of them are taking the possibility seriously.
“The debate was a serious setback,” Senator Peter Welch of Vermont told me by phone yesterday. “It’s up to President Biden and his campaign to demonstrate that they do, in fact, have the energy for another four years.”
Representative Jared Huffman of California, a Democrat serving his
