2024 presidential election: Joe Biden faces growing calls to drop out of race

Rep. Brad Schneider, D-IL, calls connected President Joe Biden to measurement speech from the 2024 Presidential race.

The congressman is the 11th House Democrat to publically telephone for Biden to permission the race.

"The clip has come, however, for President Biden to heroically walk the torch to a caller procreation of enactment to usher america to the aboriginal helium has enabled and empowered america to pursue," Schneider says successful a lengthy statement.

Schneider is the vice seat of the New Democrat Coalition.

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Biden's high-stakes property quality scheduled for Thursday nighttime is his archetypal ceremonial solo quality league since November 2023.

The president's past akin outing came astir 8 months agone erstwhile helium took questions from reporters aft his acme with Chinese President Xi Jinping successful California.

At that quality conference, Biden called connected reporters from 4 organizations, 1 of whom asked 2 questions.

White House property caput Karine Jean-Pierre jumped successful to extremity the quality league aft the 4th reporter, though Biden proceeded to reply an further 9 questions.

Biden's astir caller associated quality league was during the G7 acme past month.

President Joe Biden's run is testing head-to-head matchups of Vice President Kamala Harris against erstwhile President Donald Trump, a root acquainted with the strategy told ABC News. It's a strategical displacement that comes with expanding scrutiny connected whether Biden should extremity his 2024 reelection campaign.

The root casts this arsenic a effect to the information that Trump has begun to onslaught Harris successful his nationalist statements and speeches.

"Donald Trump shifted his stump speech. We'd beryllium dumb not to adjust," the root told ABC News. "We evidently wage adjacent attraction to what helium is saying."

Michigan Rep. Hillary Scholten has added her sanction to the increasing database of House Democrats who are calling connected Biden to extremity his statesmanlike predetermination bid.

The congresswoman said successful a connection posted connected X Thursday that it "is indispensable that we person the strongest imaginable campaigner starring the apical of the summons -- not conscionable to win, but to govern."

"The radical of Michigan's 3rd Congressional District elected maine to correspond them with integrity. They elected a Congresswoman they spot to talk the truth, adjacent erstwhile it's hard. They voted for idiosyncratic who would enactment America's aboriginal archetypal and basal up for what is right. That's what I americium doing now," Scholten, who represents Grand Rapids, said.

She is the 10th sitting House Democrat to telephone for Biden to measurement aside.

Scholten noted that if Biden stayed successful the race, she would "respect his decision," and inactive ballot for him.