What is VP Harris’ role in 25th Amendment and how would it work to remove Biden?: Experts
Concerns about President Biden’s mental sharpness and calls for him to drop out of the race have sparked questions about the 25th Amendment and what role Vice President Kamala Harris would play in triggering that process. The 25th Amendment allows for the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet to declare a president unfit for office. The vice president then becomes acting president. However, the section of the amendment specifically addressing this procedure has never been invoked. Experts talked to Fox News Digital about what that unprecedented process would look like. “The 25th amendment process was designed to be difficult.” Jonathan Turley, Fox News Media contributor and the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University, told Fox News Digital. “It is highly doubtful that Harris will play Biden’s Brutus.” TOP DEMOCRATS WHO PUSHED 25TH AMENDMENT DURING TRUMP YEARS SILENT ON TRIGGERING IT FOR BIDEN “For one thing, it is unlikely to garner the needed support in the cabinet. To seek a removal and miss would leave Harris looking not just premature but positively predatorial. With the entire White House staff marshalled to support the President, it would be viewed as a mutinous moment.” Several Republicans have called for the 25th Amendment to be triggered. “What we are seeing is that they have decided to cover up for Joe Biden to protect their radical agenda as opposed to doing what is in the best interest of the American people,” GOP Rep. Byron Donalds recently told Fox News. “If that resolution hits the floor, I would vote for it 100 percent. But at the end of the day, Kamala Harris and the cabinet, they have a responsibility to the American people. They have a constitutional duty to the American people.” GOP REP. TENNEY CALLS TO INVOKE 25TH AMENDMENT TO REMOVE BIDEN FROM OFFICE AFTER ‘ALARMING’ HUR REPORT Turley said that “given his statements in the last 24 hours” President Biden “would contest the invocation in a disastrous standoff just before the Convention.” “President Biden would quote Grover Cleveland that ‘the ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard,’” Turley added. “Harris could then find herself overboard rather than the President.” Zack Smith, a legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, also told Fox News Digital that the way the amendment is worded would allow Biden the opportunity to push back. “Under the terms of the Amendment, Harris couldn’t unilaterally act,” Smith explained. “Section 4 of the Amendment provides that when the ‘Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or such other body as Congress may by law provide,’ send written notice to the House and Senate that the President can’t do his job, the Vice President becomes Acting President. Of course, Congress hasn’t provided for an alternative body, so it would fall to the “principal officers of the executive departments,” which most understand to be cabinet secretaries — though there could be some ambiguity about who’s included in this group.” “If the President disagrees with this determination, he can send written notice that he is able to resume his duties and will unless the group that removed him disagrees within four days,” Smith continued. “Then, Congress must assemble within 48 hours and resolve the conflict within 21 days. Two-thirds of both houses would have to override the President’s claim that he is fit for office.” Fox News Digital reached out to Harris’s office inquiring whether she had noticed a visible mental decline from Biden and if the 25th Amendment has been discussed, but her office did not provide a response.
House Judiciary GOP calls on appellate courts to ‘reverse the verdict’ in NY v. Trump in new staff report
EXCLUSIVE: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and Judge Juan Merchan “worked together to deprive” former President Trump of “his constitutional and legal rights,” the House Judiciary Committee said in a new staff report exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital, saying their findings should prompt appellate courts to “reverse the verdict.” Fox News Digital exclusively obtained the interim staff report created by the House Judiciary Committee and its Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. NEW YORK V. TRUMP: MERCHAN DELAYS SENTENCING HEARING UNTIL SEPTEMBER The report, titled “Lawfare: How the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and a New York State Judge Violated the Constitutional and Legal Rights of President Donald J. Trump,” spanning 35-pages, outlines the committee’s findings since it launched its probe into the matter in March 2023. Trump was found guilty in May on all counts following a six-week-long trial — the first of a former President of the United States. Bragg, in April 2023, had charged Trump with 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. Trump had pleaded not guilty. The former president has vowed to appeal the verdict. The committee has said that Bragg’s prosecution of Trump was politically motivated, and “opened the door for future prosecutions of a former president — or current candidate — that would be widely perceived as politically motivated.” The report revealed that Bragg’s prosecution of Trump suffered from “severe legal and procedural defects.” The committees investigated “the use of lawfare tactics” and sought to expose “the two-tiered justice system that extends from the highest offices in the Department of Justice to the offices of politically ambitious state and local prosecutors.” “A fundamental principle of the American system of justice is that no individual is above the law. But just as important is the precept that prosecutors prosecute conduct, not individuals. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, however, ran for office on a platform of investigating and prosecuting President Trump, bragging about his extensive experience suing President Trump,” the report states. “Although Bragg was initially hesitant to bring charges once he became district attorney, he faced intense political pressure to do so, including a leaked resignation letter from a special assistant district attorney who attacked Bragg for being too timid. That same prosecutor, Mark Pomerantz, later authored a tell-all book in which he took Bragg to task for failing to prosecute President Trump.” “Unsurprisingly, just months after Pomerantz’s book premiered — and after President Trump declared his candidacy for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination — Bragg succumbed to this political pressure and filed charges relying on Pomerantz’s theory of the case,” the report states. BRAGG ‘ALLOWED POLITICAL MOTIVATIONS’ TO ‘INFECT’ PROSECUTION OF TRUMP, HOUSE JUDICIARY GOP SAYS The report outlined the committee’s findings, saying Bragg used an “unconstitutional and unprecedented Russian-nesting-doll theory of criminal liability, in which the jury never had to reach unanimity beyond a reasonable doubt as to each element of the criminal offenses.” The committee also criticized the Biden administration for refusing to “intercede to protect federal interests” as Bragg sought to prosecute alleged violations of federal campaign finance laws. The committee also slammed Judge Merchan for “egregious legal rulings before and during the trial that all cut against President Trump’s rights.” The committee pointed to Merchan’s decision not to recuse himself from the case, despite his daughter’s work for Democrat politicians. The committee, in its report, described that as “manifest political bias against President Trump.” They also pointed to the gag order imposed upon Trump before, during and after the trial, which prevented the former president from speaking about court staff or witnesses; his admission of “plainly inadmissible, irrelevant, and unfairly prejudicial testimony” against the former president; and his refusal to allow the testimony of former Federal Election Commission Chairman Bradley Smith. EX-TOP BIDEN DOJ OFFICIAL NOW PROSECUTING TRUMP WAS ONCE PAID BY DNC FOR ‘POLITICAL CONSULTING’ “President Trump never had a real shot at a fair trial in Manhattan,” the report states. “In a more neutral jurisdiction, where a politically ambitious prosecutor was not motivated by partisanship and a trial judge with perceived biases did not refuse to enforce a fir proceeding, President Trump would never have been found guilty.” The report states that “Manhattan is anything but a neutral jurisdiction.” The committee said that the state or local prosecution of a current or former president by a popularly elected district attorney “raises substantial federal interests and raises serious concerns about conflict between state and federal entities.” “While Bragg and Congressional Democrats dismiss these concerns, the Committee has taken steps to ensure that certain federal officials may have a fair trial in a more neutral venue,” the report states. The committee said its oversight work “is not done,” but said the report presents “the facts about how the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and a Manhattan judge worked together to deprive President Donald J. Trump of his constitutional and legal rights.” The committee heard testimony from top legal experts during the investigation — testimony that they say “makes clear that President Trump’s trial was riddled with constitutional defects.” TRUMP MOVES TO OVERTURN MANHATTAN CASE AFTER SCOTUS IMMUNITY DECISION “Defects that should prompt the New York appellate courts to reverse the verdict,” the report states. “The trial violated basic principles of due process.” The committee said Trump was “deprived of the opportunity to defend himself from the alleged underlying crime because prosecutors never disclosed it” and Merchan “never forced them to do so.” During the trial, New York prosecutor Joshua Steinglass said the underlying crime was a violation of a New York law called “conspiracy to promote or prevent election.” Typically, on their own, falsifying business records and conspiracy to promote or prevent elections are viewed as misdemeanors. “Because President Trump had no notice of the specific charges against him, in particular the underlying crime and its essential elements, he did not have a meaningful opportunity to defend himself from those charges,” the report states. The House Judiciary Committee is now demanding “an honest review of
Third in line to presidency calls on Biden to ‘seriously consider’ the future
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., third in line to the presidency, said President Biden must “seriously consider” how to secure his legacy for the future as calls grow among Democrats for Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential race over concerns about his mental fitness. Murray, who as president pro tempore is third in line to the presidency, said in a statement on Monday that Biden needs to be “more forceful and energetic” on the campaign trail to prove to voters that he is more fit for another term in the White House than former President Trump. “President Biden has to lead the charge in making that case,” Murray said. “We need to see a much more forceful and energetic candidate on the campaign trail in the very near future in order for him to convince voters he is up to the job,” Murray said. “At this critical time for our country, President Biden must seriously consider the best way to preserve his incredible legacy and secure it for the future.” LIVE UPDATES: DEMS TO HOLD MEETINGS ON CAPITOL HILL AS BIDEN’S CANDIDACY HANGS IN THE BALANCE Biden’s physical and mental fitness were called into question after the first presidential debate in June, sparking calls from voters, Democratic members of Congress and donors for the party to select a new nominee to take on Trump in November. House Democrats held a virtual meeting over the weekend to discuss the future of Biden’s re-election campaign in the wake of his highly-criticized performance at the debate. SENIOR HOUSE DEM CALLS ON BIDEN TO STEP ASIDE, SLAMS CAMPAIGN’S ‘BE QUIET AND FALL IN LINE’ STRATEGY Biden, however, has remained defiant against all calls to step aside, proclaiming that he will be staying in the race. “The bottom line here is that we’re not going anywhere. I am not going anywhere,” Biden said during a call into MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Monday. “I wouldn’t be running if I didn’t absolutely believe that I am the best candidate to beat Donald Trump in 2024,” Biden said. “We had a democratic nominating process where the voters spoke clearly. I won 14 million of those votes.” Fox News’ Aubie Spade and Nikolas Lanum contributed to this report.
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Biden ‘working the phones’ in battle to save re-election bid, with Democrats starting to return to his camp
President Biden has been “incredibly busy working the phones” and will continue to make calls through this week, a source familiar told Fox News Digital, and his strategy to save his re-election bid appears to be working. Biden has been facing mounting calls from members within his own party to step aside and suspend his re-election campaign following his disastrous debate performance last month. However, Biden is going all in to tamp down dissent among lawmakers, activists and pundits pushing for Democrats to dump him as the nominee, and rescue his suddenly tenuous candidacy, sources told Fox News Digital. “President Biden has been incredibly busy working the phones,” a source familiar with the president’s efforts told Fox News Digital, adding that Biden will be making more calls on Tuesday. By Monday evening, the tides appeared to be turning – at least, on Capitol Hill. More than half a dozen Democratic sources told Fox News Digital that the “breathless calls” to swap out Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee should be ignored. WHITE HOUSE INSISTS BIDEN WILL ‘ABSOLUTELY NOT’ SUSPEND RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN: ‘HE IS STAYING IN THE RACE’ Amid numerous reports of House and Senate Democrats planning to abandon Biden over the weekend, the president began the day Monday by sending a letter to congressional Democrats saying he is “firmly committed to staying in this race” and argued that any further questioning of his candidacy “only helps Trump and hurts us.” Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., reportedly had been considering holding a meeting Monday to gather support from colleagues to call on Biden to step aside. That meeting did not take place, sources told Fox News Digital. Instead, from the Senate, Americans saw Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., come out in support of the president, along with Sens. John Fetterman Catherine Cortez-Masto, and Raphael Warnock Other senators, like Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., would not directly commit to supporting the president, saying he first needed to meet with his Democratic Senate colleagues on Tuesday. “I’m holding off on any further commentary until we have a chance to meet,” he told Fox News. On the other side of the Capitol, however, House Democrats, including Reps. Bennie Thompson, Ayanna Pressley, Rosa De Lauro, Dan Goldman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Steven Horsford and Jim Clyburn, rallied behind the president. “The matter is closed—Joe Biden is our nominee,” Ocasio-Cortez told Fox News. “He is not leaving this race. He is in this race and I support him.” EXCLUSIVE: TRUMP FOCUSED ON CAMPAIGNING, AS DEMS ARE ‘IN DISARRAY’ AMID BIDEN CHAOS By Monday evening, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., who hosted a call with his Democratic colleagues — specifically ranking members on House committees Sunday night — said he still stands by the president. “I made clear publicly the day after the debate that I support President Joe Biden and the Democratic ticket,” Jeffries said late Monday. “My position has not changed.” When pressed on whether Biden is the best person to be the Democratic nominee in 2024, Jeffries stood his ground. “Same answer,” he said. A source familiar with the Democratic leadership told Fox News Digital that Jeffries’ position will not change. “You won’t see Jeffries or [Senate Majority Leader Chuck] Schumer come out against Biden,” the source said. The source told Fox News Digital that members of the National Finance Committee remain behind Biden, as do members of the Congressional Black Caucus and “most ranking members on the hill.” Biden participated in a virtual meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus on Monday night. The president delivered remarks and answered questions from members of the caucus. “During the conversation, President Biden thanked those on the call, talked about the stakes of this election, and the critical role CBC leaders will play in reelecting him and beating Donald Trump,” the Biden campaign told Fox News Digital. Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Fla., put out a statement shortly after the conclusion of the call, saying it “reaffirmed” her support for Biden and Harris. “Undermining Biden only weakens our resolve to defeat Donald Trump in November,” she said. Also on Monday night, Biden got the support of Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chair Nanette Barragan and Deputy Chair Adriano Espaillat. “The chaotic calls you’re seeing for Biden to drop out are just noise from the media and professional Democrats. Sure, political operatives are having a public meltdown over one bad debate night, but let’s keep things in perspective,” a Democrat strategist and former Biden administration official told Fox News Digital. “Joe Biden has already proven he can do this job and, importantly, he is the only one who has beaten Donald Trump before.” The former official pointed to polling post-debate, noting that those numbers “haven’t tanked” because “his age is already factored into how voters are approaching this.” “Millions of Americans supported him in the primary, and the idea of starting over with a new candidate this late in the game is pure fantasy,” the Democratic strategist and former official continued. “We have a known entity in Biden, who is running on popular policies, and trying to reinvent the wheel now is not just impractical—it is magical thinking.” The official added, “While the political class is salivating over a scandal to chase clicks, voters aren’t going to abandon Biden in favor of Trump because of one bad debate.” EX-OBAMA ADVISER SAYS BIDEN CAN’T BEAT ‘FATHER TIME’ AND IS ‘NOT WINNING THIS RACE’ However, Democratic sources told Fox News Digital that “the reality” is that Election Day is just four months away, and the Democratic Party “can’t just parachute a replacement in that can beat Trump this late in the game.” “The reality is, it is too late in the game to replace the guy if we want to win — that’s it,” the source told Fox News Digital. Additionally, despite reports of top donors considering pulling their support, the source told Fox News Digital that those donors “have a multi-decade personal relationship” with Biden. “There is loyalty there, and he has
Softened abortion language in Trump-approved GOP platform irks some social conservatives
A new slimmed-down Republican Party platform that won quick and overwhelming approval is the latest sign of former President Trump’s expanding ideological grip over the GOP. While the platform – which softens longstanding Republican Party language in support of a federal ban on abortion – was praised by a number of top social conservative leaders, not all evangelicals were happy with the new document. The platform, drafted by the former president and his top aides, was passed on Monday by a committee dominated by Trump supporters, which met behind closed doors in Milwaukee ahead of next week’s Republican National Convention. The vote in favor of the platform – which was loaded with populism and nationalism – was 84 to 18, according to a source who attended the meeting. LISTEN: WHAT TRUMP TOLD FOX NEWS ABOUT HIS RUNNING MATE SEARCH “Ours is a forward-looking Agenda with strong promises that we will accomplish very quickly when we win the White House and Republican Majorities in the House and Senate,” Trump wrote on social media as he praised the passage of the platform. The platform, titled “America First: A Return to Common Sense,” is the GOP’s first in eight years, as the 2016 document was duplicated in 2020. The 2016 platform weighed in at roughly 66 pages. The new version came in at just 16 pages. The platform’s section on abortion was significantly softened from the 2016 document. WATCH: WHAT RNC CHAIR WHATLEY TOLD FOX NEWS ABOUT THE GOP CONVENTION Following Trump’s lead, the document spotlights that abortion is best handled by the states. “We believe that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States guarantees that no person can be denied life or liberty without due process and that the states are, therefore, free to pass laws protecting those rights,” the draft reads. However, for the first time in 40 years, the document makes no mention of a federal abortion ban, which the presumptive GOP presidential nominee has emphasized that he opposes. Instead, the new platform stresses, “We will oppose late term abortion while supporting mothers and policies that advance prenatal care, access to birth control, and IVF (fertility treatments).” In a letter spotlighted by the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee, seven evangelical and anti-abortion leaders – including Faith and Freedom Coalition Chairman Ralph Reed and SBA Pro-Life America president Marjorie Dannenfelser – gave their support to the platform. “President Donald J. Trump has a clear track record of keeping his promises. During his first term, we pro-life and pro-family leaders applauded his courageous leadership,” the letter highlighted. “We support President Trump’s vision and his commitment reflected in the Platform to the causes that millions of Americans hold so dear – protecting life and promoting the family.” However, not everyone was happy. “I am concerned the Republican Party is moving away from its strong, definitive goal of protecting children from the moment of conception,” Tony Perkins, president of the influential Family Research Council, wrote on social media. Brent Leatherwood, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, which is the public policy wing of the Southern Baptist Convention, took to social media to argue that “now is the time to advocate for a robust vision for life — at all levels of government — not retreat from it.” Additionally, ahead of the vote, a policy group aligned with former Vice President Mike Pence – who has long been a champion for evangelical voters – urged the convention delegates on the platform committee not to purge the anti-abortion language. The platform also abandoned long-standing language opposing same-sex marriage. On economic issues, the platform does not spotlight reducing the national debt and instead calls to “end inflation” and “Make America Affordable again.” In a major break from past precedent on trade issues, the platform now supports tariffs. The document also highlights Trump’s pledge against cutting Social Security or Medicare. Marc Short, a director of legislative affairs in the Trump administration and a chief of staff for then-Vice President Pence who this cycle served as a top adviser on Pence’s unsuccessful presidential campaign, took aim at the planks. “Embracing tariffs and avoiding addressing entitlement spending, have been mainstays of the Democrat party. Adopting massive tax increases ( tariffs) as part of the Republican platform will not lead to economic prosperity,” Short argued. The platform also included much of the language and rhetoric Trump uses on the campaign trail, including calls for the U.S. border with Mexico to be sealed and urging an end to “the weaponization of government against the American people.” “It doesn’t say we’re not going to support this or that. It just focuses on the broad issues that everybody knows we’re going to support,” said a delegate who supported the platform who asked for anonymity to speak more freely. The delegate told Fox News that the new platform “is something that I can go out and sell. It’s very simple, straightforward, very readable and very understandable.” The Biden campaign took aim at the document, charging that “Donald Trump’s policy “platform” reads more like the screed of an unhinged and unwell conspiracy theorist who hates America and is in it for himself.” The platform is expected to be easily approved at the full party convention next week. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.
House Dems calling for Biden to step down won’t say if they’ll back him in general election
Most of the House Democrats who have urged President Biden to bow out of the 2024 race are silent on whether they’d support him as the White House nominee if their calls go unheeded. The 81-year-old leader’s disastrous debate performance two weeks ago has fueled concerns among his fellow Democrats that he may not be able to beat former President Donald Trump in November. Reps. Mike Quigley, D-Ill., Seth Moulton, D-Mass., Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, Angie Craig, D-Minn., and Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., have all come out publicly urging Biden to step aside. Fox News Digital reached out to each of the five Democrats via email multiple times on Monday and did not hear back. ILLINOIS DEMOCRAT WARNS BIDEN LOOKS ‘VERY FRAIL,’ RISKING RACE: ‘HAVE TO BE HONEST … IT’S GETTING WORSE’ Biden and his campaign have both maintained that he is staying in the race and is the best suited candidate to keep Trump from a second term. But even his allies are questioning whether he has the stamina and mental acuity to lead in his own second term, much less run a campaign until early November. Some Democrats have expressed concerns that his candidacy could drag down vulnerable leftists running for the House and Senate as well. The window for Democrats to choose a new candidate, however, is rapidly closing and will likely be virtually impossible after the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago in August. The president wrote to congressional Democrats earlier on Monday making clear that he was not budging. “The question of how to move forward has been well aired for over a week now,” Biden wrote. “And it’s time for it to end. We have one job. And that is to beat Donald Trump.” TRUMP APPROVAL RATING TOPS 50% AS HE LEADS BIDEN ON VOTERS’ TOP TWO ISSUES: POLL The pressure only grew since then, with Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, adding to the calls for Biden to step aside during a CNN interview late afternoon on Monday. Smith maintained during the interview that he would support Biden if he becomes the nominee in August, however. Democratic lawmakers were largely evasive on Capitol Hill Monday night when Congress returned to session for its first full week since the debate. Those who did stop to speak to the media largely defended Biden and directed their ire toward Trump. Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., a Biden ally and the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, would not answer reporters’ questions on Biden’s candidacy after House votes. When asked how he thought Vice President Kamala Harris would do at the top of the 2024 ticket, Rep. Andre Carson, D-Ind., told reporters, “I think she’d be phenomenal. I think it’s time for a woman to be president…But Joe Biden is our president, and we’re going to support him.” Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., said her group would be meeting with Biden sometime this week. She also took a veiled shot at fellow Democrats for publicly airing their frustrations with Biden. EX-OBAMA ADVISER SAYS BIDEN CAN’T BEAT ‘FATHER TIME’ AND IS ‘NOT WINNING THIS RACE’ “I think it would be hard not to be concerned,” she said of Biden’s debate performance, before adding, “I think that he has been a really wonderful president the last three and a half years and has worked closely with the progressives.” “I think the conversation is important to have right now because people do have concerns, but I just don’t think it should be in public.” Rep. Joe Morelle, D-N.Y., who reportedly expressed concerns with Biden’s candidacy on a House Democratic call Sunday, would not confirm those reports when asked by reporters but conceded he needed to see improvements in the president. “Well I mean, I think the president, I’ve said, I think needs to demonstrate to the American public that what we saw in the debate is not normal state of affairs,” Morelle said. “Unfortunately, it’s a burden he has now, but he’s got to continue to do that, and he’s got to do it quickly.” Others, like Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., emphatically stuck up for Biden as the Democratic nominee. Neither addressed concerns about Biden’s cognitive abilities. When reached for comment earlier on Democrat calls to step down, a Biden campaign spokesperson pointed to his comments at a Wisconsin rally on Friday. “I’m not letting one 90-minute debate wipe out three and a half years of work. I’m staying in the race, and I will beat Donald Trump,” Biden said.
Schumer silent as worries over Biden’s fitness swell in Senate
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has refused to comment on President Biden’s poor presidential candidate debate performance last month against former President Trump or the concerns it has raised for many about Biden’s ability to serve another term. Schumer’s staff was asked Monday by Fox News Digital how he felt about Biden’s debate performance and whether the interview the president did with ABC News last week calmed any concerns among Democrat senators. His staff was also questioned about whether Schumer believes Biden should be the Democrat nominee, if he has any potential replacement ideas, and his thoughts about the concerns of fellow Democrats about Biden that have been made public. The leader’s office did not respond. VULNERABLE DEM SENATOR BREAKS SILENCE ON BIDEN’S FITNESS, DEMANDS PRESIDENT PROVE ABILITY The majority leader has not commented on the debate or mounting Democrat fears. However, he told reporters last week and again on Monday that he remains supportive of Biden. “I’m with Joe Biden,” he said at a New York press conference on July 2. “I’m for Joe,” he reportedly reiterated while walking into the Senate on Monday. FETTERMAN EMERGES AS FIERCE BIDEN DEFENDER, COMPARING POST-STROKE DEBATE TO BIDEN BLUNDER Biden’s showing at the debate managed to awaken fears among Democrat lawmakers, staff and strategists almost immediately. But officeholders, particularly those in leadership positions, have been careful about making any such concerns public. By Monday afternoon, two vulnerable Democrat senators, Jon Tester of Montana and Sherrod Brown of Ohio, commented on Biden’s fitness to continue his campaign. Tester said Biden needs to prove to him and the country that he can serve four more years. Brown didn’t go as far but noted that he was hearing concerns from Ohioans on the ground. The president has pushed back on the worries among Democrats. In a letter to congressional Democrats on Monday, Biden said, “I wouldn’t be running again if I did not absolutely believe I was the best person to beat Donald Trump in 2024.” AT-RISK DEMS STEER CLEAR OF BIDEN DEBATE DRAMA AHEAD OF CLOSE SENATE ELECTIONS He also said that continued scrutiny of his candidacy would only serve to help Trump. Senate Democrats are expected to discuss their feelings on Biden’s continued candidacy on Tuesday afternoon during a regularly scheduled policy lunch. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., who has since revealed his intention to have a conversation about “the strongest path forward” for Democrats in 2024, had originally tried to recruit Democrats for a Monday meeting to specifically address concerns about Biden. Once those efforts were leaked to the press, the Democrats decided to discuss the issue as an entire caucus instead. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.
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Senate Dems to discuss Biden’s candidacy at caucus meeting amid growing concerns
President Biden and his status at the top of the Democrat ticket in November are expected to be discussed by Democrat senators on Tuesday during a weekly caucus meeting as concerns continue to emerge among the party members. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., had been trying to gather a group of Democrat senators to meet on Monday to discuss a path forward amid the fallout of Biden’s debate against former President Trump, a source familiar told Fox News Digital. However, the meeting the Virginia senator was trying to plan is no longer being sought. The details of the potential meeting hadn’t yet been confirmed when reports of it emerged. Because of the leaks, the Democrats opted not to hold a separate meeting to talk about the president. DEMOCRATS’ SENATE HOPES COULD HANG ON SPLIT-TICKET VOTING COMEBACK Instead, the caucus will talk about the dilemma during their already scheduled policy lunch on Tuesday. “With so much at stake in the upcoming election, now is the time for conversations about the strongest path forward,” Warner said in a statement Monday afternoon. “As these conversations continue, I believe it is incumbent upon the President to more aggressively make his case to the American people, and to hear directly from a broader group of voices about how to best prevent Trump’s lawlessness from returning to the White House.” Warner’s office did not provide comment to Fox News Digital in time for publication. UNDERDOG DEM USING DAVE CHAPPELLE SHOW TO GAIN EDGE IN PIVOTAL SWING STATE While some House Democrats have made their concerns over Biden as the Democrat nominee publicly known, the party’s senators have been much quieter, even as his debate blunder dominated the news cycle. But by Monday afternoon, two vulnerable Democrat Sens. Jon Tester, D-Mont., and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, made comments on Biden’s fitness to continue his campaign. Tester claimed Biden now needed to prove to him, along with the country, that he could serve four more years. Brown didn’t go as far but noted that he was hearing concerns from Ohioans on the ground. TAMMY BALDWIN TO STICK TO STATE TOUR INSTEAD OF JOINING BIDEN DURING WISCONSIN VISIT PRESSURE MOUNTS ON BATTLEGROUND STATE DEMS AFTER BIDEN DEBATE DISASTER Meanwhile, the revelation that Warner – the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence chair who often works with Republican colleagues across the aisle –was trying to facilitate a meeting with the sole purpose of addressing Biden’s status as the nominee became the most significant public development in the upper chamber late last week. When Biden was asked about Warner’s effort in an interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos on Friday, the president said, “Well, Mark is a good man. We’ve never had that – he also tried to get the nomination, too. Mark’s not – Mark and I have a different perspective. I respect him.” Biden also penned a letter to congressional Democrats on Monday after his interview didn’t seem to quell concerns brewing in the party. According to the president, he is “firmly committed to staying in this race.” He further warned his fellow Democrats that airing such concerns about his candidacy “only helps Trump and hurts us.” Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.