Is Biden about to collapse? “I’ll withdraw if…”, new scenarios in the challenge with Trump –

He said: “Would I withdraw if I mightn’t beat Donald Trump? It depends. If God Almighty came down and told me, I might do it.” After the attack that his White House challenger survived, Joe Biden is changing his mind. The US president would only abandon the race if his doctors advised him to. “If some medical condition came up, if someone, if the doctors came to me and said, you have such and such a problem,” the president said in an interview with Ed Gordon of Bet News. Previously, however, Biden had said that so far no doctor had expressed concerns in this regard, nor had asked him to take a cognitive test, following the one he underwent in February, as part of his annual general medical check-ups.

But the Democratic push to withdraw his candidacy has now reached the highest levels of the party. “Our nation is at a crossroads: a second Trump presidency would undermine the very foundations of our democracy, and I have grave doubts that President Biden can beat Trump in November,” said Adam Schiff, the Democratic congressman who, as chairman of the Intelligence Committee, was a key figure in the impeachment trials once morest Trump, the most prominent figure in the party to publicly ask Biden to step down. In a statement to the Los Angeles Times, Schiff, who praised Biden as “one of the most effective presidents in our history,” recalled that the “choice to withdraw can only be made by the president,” but reiterated that he believes the time has come for him to “pass the torch” in order to “secure his legacy” by allowing another Democrat to defeat Trump. “There is only one goal, to defeat Trump, the stakes are too high,” the statement concluded.

Schiff’s intervention is significant not only because the Democrat appears destined to become a future senator from California. But also because he is a close ally of former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who in recent weeks, Politico recalls, has been secretly stoking concerns among Democratic congressmen regarding Biden’s ability to guarantee victory. Schiff’s position comes on the day in which very negative polls for the president were released, such as the one from the New York Times that gives Trump the win in all the swing states. Or the even more worrying one, carried out by BlueLabs – a company funded by Democratic donors – which shows how, following the disastrous debate in Atlanta, Biden has lost ground in 14 states, including the 5 he had snatched from the tycoon in 2020: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The president also appears vulnerable in Colorado, Minnesota, Maine, New Mexico, Virginia and New Hampshire. Finally, the data that should be most alarming for Biden’s team: the poll finds that no less than four Democrats would do better than the president in the duel with Trump in key states: Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.