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Sources: Joe Biden Considers Withdrawing Campaign

Emil Forsberg

Updated 18.13 | Published 16.53

 

Photo: Evan Vucci/AP

Joe Biden's time in the presidency may be coming to an end.

According to sources to the New York Times, he is considering withdrawing his candidacy.

- The president is well aware of the political challenge he faces, says an anonymous adviser.

Quick version

• President Joe Biden may withdraw his presidential candidacy, sources told the New York Times.
• The disputed debate against Donald Trump last week is pointed out as a reason.
• The current administration, the White House, denies these claims and calls them false.

Joe Biden, 81, was strongly questioned by both Democrats and Republicans after his performance in the debate against Donald Trump last week.

On Wednesday, top Democrat Lloyd Doggett also called on Biden to withdraw.

- I hope that he will make the painful and difficult decision to resign, he said then.

Now a source close to Biden states that the president is considering withdrawing his candidacy, the New York Times reports.

Biden plans an interview with NBC News on Friday and will then make campaign stops in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin that must go well, according to the New York Times. Otherwise, he can thank himself. Even CNN has similar information.

- The president is well aware of the political challenge he faces, says an anonymous adviser.

The White House denies the information.

“The claim is completely false. If the New York Times had given us more than 7 minutes to comment, we would have told them," writes the White House spokesperson on X.

NBC News' new opinion poll shows that ex-president Donald Trump sailed past Biden with 50 percent to 48 after the much-publicized debate. In the key states, the number is 51 to 48 in favor of Trump.

- He is raging in the surveys, the fundraising is drying up and the interviews are going badly. He is not unaware of it, an anonymous source told CNN.

Later in the evening, Bloomberg reported that a dozen or so Democratic lawmakers are considering starting a petition to demand that Biden withdraw.

Tonight, Biden will have a meeting with concerned Democratic governors at the White House.


Donald Trump and Joe Biden in the controversial debate. Photo: John Bazemore/AP