US election campaign: Former Democratic MPs call for Biden's resignation

More and more voices are speaking out against US President Biden running for re-election. Now more than 20 former Congress members are urging its withdrawal. Meanwhile, major donors are threatening to stop their payments.

Twenty-four former members of Congress from the Democratic Party have called on US President Joe Biden to withdraw from another re-election campaign.

Biden, 81, who won the Democratic primary, said the country would be better served by relieving delegates of their obligation to vote for him at the party's nominating convention. An open letter.

“Strength and Endurance” is no more

Instead, others should be given the opportunity to contest the upcoming presidential election in November. “We firmly believe that one or more capable Democratic candidates will run,” the signatories wrote in a letter addressed to “the American people,” as cited by news portal Politico.

The president's “integrity and vision” remain unchanged, the Democrats asserted in their letter. However, the “energy and endurance” needed for a presidential campaign and another term is no longer there.

Among the 24 signatories are two former senators, Tim Wirth of Colorado and Tom Harkin of Iowa.

Major donors are threatening to end their support

Meanwhile, some Democratic donors have threatened to withhold about $90 million in campaign support unless Biden sticks with the candidacy, according to a New York Times report.

An adviser to the Biden-supporting group Future Forward told the newspaper that he expects donors who have frozen their funds to release them once the uncertainty is resolved.

Democrats: Donations up

According to Biden's campaign team, many Democrats will continue to financially support the US president's candidacy. Campaign donations exploded during Biden's press conference at the end of the NATO summit in Washington on Thursday evening, said Michael Tyler, a spokesman for the team. “We received almost 40,000 donations last night alone,” Tyler said. They were received seven times faster than the average. This shows that support for Biden is still high.

Biden came under massive pressure after his erratic and confused appearance in a televised showdown with his opponent Donald Trump in late June. Even after that, there were repeated linguistic failures by the President.

During a NATO summit in Washington, he introduced Ukrainian President Zelensky as Putin. He had mixed up names many times before and had no sentences.

According to an estimate of ARD reporter Gudrun Engel However, the number of Democratic elected officials who can imagine a presidential candidate other than Biden is still too low to expect a “political revolution.”