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(NewsNation) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is "privately signaling" he's unfastened to President Joe Biden leaving the ticket, according to Axios.
Schumer antecedently amplified statements of enactment for Biden, the party’s presumptive nominee, contempt backlash pursuing Biden's debate performance.
“As I’ve said before, I’m with Joe,” Schumer said during his play property conference.
Axios reports that implicit the past 12 days, Schumer "has been listening to donors' ideas and suggestions astir the champion mode guardant for the party," according to 3 radical acquainted with the matter.
Earlier Monday, Biden said successful a missive sent to Democratic lawmakers that he’s “firmly committed” to moving successful the 2024 election.
Writing successful the missive that he’s had “extensive conversations” with enactment leadership, elected officials and voters implicit the past 10 days, Biden added they person “good religion fears and worries” astir what is astatine involvement successful this election.
“Believe me, I cognize amended than anyone the work and the load the nominee of our enactment carries,” Biden wrote.
However, “the question of however to determination guardant has been well-aired for implicit a week now,” Biden wrote. “And it’s clip for it to end.”
Biden has fielded questions implicit whether helium should beryllium the Democratic nominee for president pursuing his highly criticized show astatine the archetypal statesmanlike statement 2 weeks ago. As helium debated presumptive Republican nominee and erstwhile President Donald Trump, Biden stumbled done his words and appeared astatine times to beryllium confused. Although Trump made aggregate mendacious statements during the debate, concerns implicit Biden’s property and intelligence fittingness took halfway stage.
To Democrats successful Congress, though, Biden wrote, “I wouldn’t beryllium moving again if I did not perfectly judge I was the champion idiosyncratic to bushed Donald Trump successful 2024.
“We person a historical grounds of occurrence to tally on."
