Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, the top Democrat on the Finance Committee, confirmed on Friday that then-Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer privately urged President Joe Biden to abandon his 2024 campaign in July,
“If you run and you lose to Trump, and we lose the Senate, and we don’t get back the House, that 50 years of amazing, beautiful work goes out the window,” Schumer told Biden. “But worse — you go down in American history as one of the darkest figures.”
Sen. Chuck Schumer urged Joe Biden during a private meeting on a lakeside porch in mid-July to drop out of the 2024 race, telling the President that as few as five Democratic senators privately supported his re-election campaign and that a loss to Donald Trump could make him "one of the darkest figures" in American political history.
Explore the dramatic behind-the-scenes meetings that led to Joe Biden's decision to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race, as Chuck Schumer delivers a stark message about his chances against Trump.
Former President Barack Obama urged then-Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to be the one to talk President Joe Biden into dropping out of the 2024 presidential race. After Biden’s disastrous debate performance on June 27,
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who publicly proclaimed after President Biden’s disastrous debate, “I’m with Joe,” has now revealed to The New York Times that he pointedly urged
When President Joe Biden bombed during his June 27 debate with Donald Trump, Sen. Chuck Schumer saw it as an opportunity to start an overdue discussion about the president’s political viability,
One of the only vocal supporters among the senators was John Fetterman, who grumbled that his colleagues had “no spine” and needed to “be for Joe Biden.” Schumer eventually scolded the ...
Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, the top Democrat on the Finance Committee, confirmed on Friday that then-Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer privately urged President Joe Biden to abandon his 2024 ...
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who publicly proclaimed after President Biden’s disastrous debate, “I’m with Joe,” has now revealed to The New York Times that he pointedly ...
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