President Biden mentioned in a letter to congressional Democrats on Monday that he was “firmly dedicated to staying within the race,” a defiant reply to allies on Capitol Hill who’ve been more and more going public with requires him to drop out.
“The query of how we transfer ahead has been properly aired for over every week now,” Mr. Biden wrote within the two-page letter, launched by his marketing campaign. “And it’s time for it to finish. We’ve one job. And that’s to beat Donald Trump.”
The letter comes at some point after a number of senior Home Democrats mentioned throughout a non-public convention name that they believed Mr. Biden should step down from the race, including huge stress on the president and his advisers.
Within the letter — which appeared meant to go off any extra calls from lawmakers for him to step apart as lawmakers returned to Washington on Monday — Mr. Biden seems to have run out of persistence with the refrain of criticism coming from Capitol Hill, the information media and elsewhere. The 2-page letter is a rejection of the criticism, a denial of the allegations about his shortcomings and a requirement for unity.
“We’ve 42 days to the Democratic Conference and 119 days to the overall election,” he wrote. “Any weakening of resolve or lack of readability concerning the process forward solely helps Trump and hurts us.”
The president repeated within the letter that he didn’t agree with the arguments being made towards him. And he made no concessions about his age or his capability to carry out the features of the presidency or have interaction in a rigorous marketing campaign towards Mr. Trump within the months forward.
As an alternative, he argued that these attempting to push him out of the race could be denying the needs of the voters who participated within the main course of — although he famous the truth that he confronted solely token opposition.
“This was a course of open to anybody who wished to run. Solely three individuals selected to problem me,” Mr. Biden wrote. “One fared so badly that he left the primaries to run as an unbiased. One other attacked me for being too outdated and was soundly defeated. The voters of the Democratic Occasion have voted. They’ve chosen me to be the nominee of the get together.”
He added: “Can we now say this course of doesn’t matter? I decline to try this.”
Mr. Biden devotes a lot of the letter to a recitation of his report. He cites the creation of 15 million jobs, his defeat of “large Pharma,” investments in combating local weather change and the hassle to enhance the nation’s infrastructure. He contrasts that with what he calls the financial imaginative and prescient of “Trump and the MAGA Republicans.”
However it isn’t clear whether or not the letter will blunt the issues coming from his allies on Capitol Hill. It repeats the arguments that Mr. Biden has tried to make in marketing campaign appearances because the debate and in the course of the interview with ABC Information on Friday.
