I'm with Joe Biden,
I know I'm not a young man. I don't walk as easy as I used to. I don't speak as smoothly as I used to. I don't debate as well as I used to, but I know what I do know: I know how to tell the truth!"
President Biden is a healthy, active, robust 81-year-old male, who remains fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency.”
There have been 15, 20, occasions in the last year and a half when the president has appeared somewhat as he did in that horror show that we witnessed,
It’s a no, and I hope you’re asking the other guy the same question,
Recognizing that, unlike Trump, President Biden’s first commitment has always been to our country, not himself, I am hopeful that he will make the painful and difficult decision to withdraw,
I think his four years are one of the great presidencies of our lifetime, but I think he has to be honest with himself, ... This is a decision he’s going to have to make.”
We have to be honest with ourselves that it wasn’t just a horrible night, but I won’t go beyond that out of my respect and understanding of President Joe Biden, a very proud person who has served us extraordinarily well for 50 years,
There’s a large and increasing group of House Democrats concerned about the president’s candidacy, representing a broad swath of the caucus. We are deeply concerned about his trajectory and his ability to win. We want to give him space to make a decision [to step aside] but we will be increasingly vocal about our concerns if he doesn’t.”
President Biden saved our democracy by delivering us from Trump in 2020. He must not deliver us to Trump in 2024,
Our overriding consideration must be who has the best hope of saving our democracy from an authoritarian takeover by a criminal and his gang,
He's staying in."
When people ask that question, it’s legitimate -- of both candidates,
President Biden has continued to run substantially behind Democratic senators in key states and in most polls has trailed Donald Trump. I had hoped that the debate would provide some momentum to change that. It did not. Instead of reassuring voters, the President failed to effectively defend his many accomplishments and expose Trump’s many lies,
This week, with the Supreme Court creating 'a law-free zone around the President,' Trump, newly-empowered with immunity, could usher America into a long, dark, authoritarian era unchecked by either the courts or a submissive Republican Congress,
He has to be honest with himself,
I represent the heart of a congressional district once represented by Lyndon Johnson. Under very different circumstances, he made the painful decision to withdraw. President Biden should do the same,
My decision to make these strong reservations public is not done lightly nor does it in any way diminish my respect for all that President Biden has achieved,
Too much is at stake to risk a Trump victory — too great a risk to assume that what could not be turned around in a year, what was not turned around in the debate, can be turned around now,
This is real! To ignore what the public obviously feels is ridiculous,