• FlowVoid@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    He has gone public? Because he hasn’t said anything about this.

    All I see are secondhand reports from anonymous sources, which is kind of the opposite of going public.

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      10 days ago

      "Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) is attempting to assemble a group of Democratic senators to ask Joe Biden to exit the presidential race,” the Washington Post reports.

      “Warner is telling Democratic senators that Biden can no longer remain in the election in the wake of his faltering debate performance… The Virginia senator has told others that he is deeply concerned Biden is not able to run a campaign that could beat former president Donald Trump.”

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        10 days ago

        … according to two people with direct knowledge of the effort

        So, he hasn’t gone public, at all.

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          10 days ago

          The Senate isin recess until Monday. Senators tend not to make public pronouncements while in recess. Which makes this interesting to watch. If the Biden effort through the weekend enough for him to hold fire? Guess we’ll find out.