Biden says ready for election campaign return to counter Trump’s ‘dark vision’
- His comment comes as more Democratic lawmakers call on Biden to drop out of his election race against Donald Trump
As more Democratic members of Congress urged him to drop out – bringing the total since his disastrous debate against Trump to nearly three dozen – Biden remained isolated at his beach house in Delaware after being diagnosed with COVID-19. The president, who has insisted he can beat Trump, was huddling with family and relying on a few long-time aides as he resisted efforts to shove him aside.
Late Friday, Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat facing a tough race for re-election, called for Biden to step aside.
Brown said in a statement that he agreed with “the many Ohioans” who have reached out to him. “I think the president should end his campaign,” he said.
And in a statement later Friday, Rep. Morgan McGarvey, D-Ky., also called on Biden to drop out while saying, “there is no joy in the recognition he should not be our nominee in November. But the stakes of this election are too high.”
Biden said Trump’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention showcased a “dark vision for the future.” The president, seeking to move the political conversation away from his fate and onto his rival’s agenda, said on Friday he was planning to return to the campaign trail next week and insisted he has a path to victory over Trump, despite the worries of some of his party’s most eminent members.
