Democrat Schiff calls on Biden to drop out of presidential race – National

Democratic United States Representative Adam Schiff called the President of the United States Joe Biden to end his re-election campaign on Wednesday, becoming the 20th Democrat in Congress to do so.

Schiff said Wednesday that Biden had been “one of the most important presidents,” but that the nation was at a crossroads and that a second Trump presidency would undermine American democracy.

“While the decision to step down from the campaign is solely President Biden’s, I believe it is time for him to pass the torch,” Schiff said in a statement. “And in doing so, he must preserve his legacy of leadership in helping us defeat Donald Trump in the next election.”

“A second Trump presidency would undermine the very foundations of our democracy, and I am deeply concerned about whether the president will be able to defeat Donald Trump in November,” the statement said.

Schiff, who is running for Senate this year, is a former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee who led the House’s first impeachment proceedings against Trump in 2019.

Democratic concern Concerns about the 81-year-old incumbent’s ability to beat his Republican opponent Trump, or to stay in office for another four years, grew after Biden’s faltering performance in the June 27 debate.

Trump is currently in Milwaukee, where his fellow Republicans are officially nominating him as their candidate, days after narrowly escaping an assassin’s bullet during a campaign stop in Pennsylvania.

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— With files from Reuters