WaPo: Sen. Mark Warner Seeks To Assemble Senate Democrats To Beseech Biden To Exit Presidential Race

The Washington Post reports:

Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) is attempting to assemble a group of Democratic senators to ask President Biden to exit the presidential race, according to two people with direct knowledge of the effort.

Warner is telling Democratic senators that Biden can no longer remain in the election in the wake of his faltering debate performance, according to the people familiar with private conversations who spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak freely.

Warner has told others that he is deeply concerned that Biden is not able to run a campaign that could beat former president Donald Trump. Warner spokeswoman Rachel Cohen would neither confirm nor deny that the senator thinks Biden needs to drop out of the race.

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