2024 election updates: Manchin the latest to call on Biden to end reelection bid

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries remained tight-lipped on Biden’s candidacy as he continued to take the temperature of the House Democratic caucus.

"Throughout this week, as House Democrats, we have engaged in a process of talking to each other. Those conversations have been candid, comprehensive, and clear eyed and they continue until that process concluded," Jeffries said during a news conference Thursday.

"House Democrats, Senate Democrats and President Biden are unified on the affirmative agenda that we have for the American people," the New York congressman added.

Jeffries responded "no" when asked if Biden is a liability for vulnerable House Democrats.

New York Rep. Ritchie Torres posted a statement on X Thursday expressing more doubts about Biden's viability on the presidential ticket.

Torres, who represents the Bronx, said the president "simply had one bad debate performance reflects a continuing pattern of denial and self-delusion

"The notion that the President is going to be saved by this interview or that press conference misses the forest for trees," he said.

Ohio Rep. Greg Landsman said he is inching "close and closer" to calling on Biden to step aside in an interview Thursday on CNN.

"It's becoming increasingly likely that this is, this may be just too high of a hill for him to climb," he said.

Landsman said Biden's letter to congressional Democrats on Monday did not help.

"The question is about the future of the country," he added.

-ABC News' Lauren Peller

The Biden campaign is laying out what it sees as its path forward to Joe Biden winning reelection in a new memo shared internally with campaign staff on Thursday by Jen O'Malley Dillon and Julie Chavez Rodriguez, a source familiar with the campaign told ABC News.

The memo, first reported by the AP, acknowledges anxieties but claims they still have "multiple pathways to 270 electoral votes."

The memo was revealed after Democrats had demanded Biden and his campaign show how it planned to win despite Biden's poor poll numbers.

The campaign said it will focus on winning the “blue wall” states of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan, and believes that the "sunbelt states are not out of reach."

The memo states the race remains a margin-of-error race in key battleground states, despite calls for Biden to step down citing internal data.

-ABC News' Gabriella Abdul-Hakim, Fritz Farrow and Will McDuffie

Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt. spoke with ABC News Thursday morning about Thursday's scheduled lunch between Democratic senators and top Biden campaign officials.

Welch, who is, so far, the only Democratic senator to call for Biden to step aside, said the path forward involved the president persuading voters, not advisers persuading senators.

"It's a show me not tell me issue. I think for Americans it's not so much about individual senators or members of Congress," Welch said. "It's really about the challenge of everyday campaign."

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., told ABC News he's putting a bit more weight into Thursday's meeting with the Biden officials.

"We are very interested to hear how they make their case," he said.

-ABC News' Rachel Scott and Allison Pecorin