Rep. Lloyd Doggett is the first sitting Democratic lawmaker to formally call on Biden to drop his reelection bid against former President Donald Trump.
Doggett, 77, is the first sitting Democratic lawmaker to formally call on Biden to drop his reelection bid against former President Donald Trump .
Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, makes his way to House votes in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, June 5, 2024.Joe BidenDoggett, 77, is the first sitting Democratic lawmaker to formally call on his own party's incumbent to drop his reelection bid against former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee.
The call significantly escalates pressure on Biden, 81, whose disastrous debate against Trump last week set off waves of panic among his supporters about whether he is capable of winning in November and serving another four years in the White House.In response to Doggett's statement, a Biden campaign official told NBC News: "He's staying in.
"Our overriding consideration must be who has the best hope of saving our democracy from an authoritarian takeover by a criminal and his gang," Doggett wrote in the statement. "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."
"President Biden saved our democracy by delivering us from Trump in 2020. He must not deliver us to Trump in 2024," Doggett said.
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