One of Virginia’s United States Senators is reportedly leading an effort to get rid of President Joe Biden.
Senator Mark Warner is allegedly planning a meeting to be held next week with fellow Democrat Senators to pressure Biden to leave the 2024 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, instead issuing a statement that read, “Like many other people in Washington and across the country, Senator Warner believes these are critical days for the president’s campaign, and he has made that clear to the White House.”
Warner is not running for reelection this year. but fellow Democrat Tim Kaine is on the ballot. Kaine’s camp has been working hand-in-hand with the Biden campaign, opening Democratic Coordinated Campaign offices all over the Commonwealth to conduct unified grassroots efforts between the two camps.