PBS’ Desjardins: ‘Scores of House Democrats, Not a Handful, Scores’ Want Biden to Step Aside

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DESJARDINS: "Amna, the texts and phone calls from Democratic lawmakers concerned have not waned in the last week. And talking to about a dozen or so House members in particular, and top staffers in Congress who are Democrats the last couple of days, I can report that there are two movements to write letters asking the president to step aside as a nominee. There's been two groups that are trying to form. One, veteran lawmakers, generally, who are in safe seats like Lloyd Doggett, who've you interviewed here on this program. The other is from frontline members who are much more vulnerable, who believe they have much more to risk if Biden is on the ballot. So these two groups right now are trying to get text together, trying to move these letters ahead. Now, would they actually publicly call for the president to do this? Unclear. They are talking about it. How big are these groups? Also unclear. It's very fluid. But I can report, from having these conversations, that we are talking about scores of House Democrats — not a handful, scores — who want the president, privately, they say, to step aside."