2024 election updates: Manchin the latest to call on Biden to end reelection bid
More Democrats called for Biden to bow out of the race.
President Joe Biden faced a critical point in his reelection bid as Democratic calls for him to exit the 2024 race continued to mount despite his efforts to shut them down.
A poor debate performance against Donald Trump in June reignited questions about Biden's age and fitness to carry out his campaign and serve another four years. While Biden defiantly insisted he was staying the course, he later announced on July 21 that he was dropping out of the 2024 presidential race.
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Biden to speak with Congressional Hispanic Caucus: Sources
Biden will be speaking with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus on Friday, two sources familiar with the planning told ABC News.
The meeting was technically set up through the BOLD PAC, which supports Hispanic and progressive candidates and includes members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, according to sources.
-ABC News' Rachel Scott
Ron Klain says Biden news conference a 'more typical' performance than debate
Ron Klain, a senior adviser to Biden and former White House chief of staff joined MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Friday to discuss Biden's high-stakes news conference.
Klain framed the debate as a "bad night" and said the preparations were better than the real-time showing. Klain also said that what Americans saw on Thursday is more representative of Biden's abilities.
"Last night, the press conference we saw ... was much more typical to what we saw in the debate preparations," Klain said, adding: "And I think that the president showed showed what he's capable of last night in this press conference, and voters see it every day as he governs and leads the country and campaigns around the country."
-ABC News' Gabrielle Abdul-Hakim
Jeffries, Schumer privately sympathetic to view that Biden on path to lose to Trump, source says
According to a senior Democratic source, at the Biden campaign briefing on Thursday with Democratic senators, only three senators spoke up to say Biden should stay in the race. The senators also asked for Anita Dunn (a senior adviser to Biden) to be at the briefing and she did not come.
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer are both sympathetic to the view Biden is on a path to lose to Trump and it would be best if he moved on, the source said. But, the source said, "This is a private play, not a public one."
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has also spoken to Barack Obama about this -- although it is important to say, they talk regularly.
-ABC News' Jonathan Karl
Another House Democrat calls on Biden to step aside as candidate
"Joe Biden saved our country once, and I'm joining the growing number of people in my district and across the country to ask him to do it again," Colorado Rep. Brittany Pettersen said in a statement.
The congresswoman urged Biden to "pass the torch" to "one of our many capable Democratic leaders so we have the best chance to defeat Donald Trump."
There are now 18 congressional Democrats calling on Biden to step aside as the party's candidate.