Biden vows to stay in race as more Democrats ask him to drop out
Al Jazeera
Standoff between 81-year-old president and his party expected to intensify as 12 more Democrats ask him to step aside.
United States President Joe Biden has promised to remain in the presidential race and beat his opponent despite growing calls from members of his Democratic Party asking him to withdraw.
The 81-year-old, who is isolating at his beach house in Delaware since his COVID-19 diagnosis, took aim at his rival Donald Trump – who just wrapped up the Republican National Convention – in a series of posts online on Friday, and said he would return to campaigning next week.
Trump’s “dark vision for the future is not who we are as Americans. Together, as a party and as a country, we can and will defeat him at the ballot box,” Biden said. “The stakes are high, and the choice is clear. Together, we will win.”
But 12 more Democratic politicians, including two senators and a group of Congress members, called on the president to step aside.
