Via Office of Rep. Greg Stanton
BY JACOB FISCHLER | AZ MIRROR
As President Joe Biden faced perhaps the most consequential day yet for his ailing reelection campaign Thursday, with a press conference at the NATO annual meeting scheduled for late afternoon, Arizona Congressman Greg Stanton and two other moderate Democrats called for him to end his candidacy and let someone else challenge Donald Trump.
The call from Stanton, Brad Schneider of Illinois, Ed Case of Hawaii came as private talks among Democrats on Capitol Hill about his fitness for office extended and calls for him to withdraw from the race spread.
Biden’s solo press conference is his first since a disastrous June 27 debate performance shook his party’s confidence in his chances to defeat Trump in November’s election.
Elected Democrats have urged Biden to hold more unscripted events to show his frail and sometimes incoherent showing at the debate was an isolated incident.
Biden has argued that the concerns voiced since the debate have come from party “elites.”
