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(Washington, D.C.) — President Biden will try again today to show voters that he’s not too old to be President, when he holds a press conference. He will take questions from reporters at the White House, just as more Democratic Senators are questioning his fitness to lead. On Wednesday, Vermont Senator Peter Welch became the first member of the upper house of Congress to publicly call on Biden to step aside so someone else can run. Welch wrote an op-ed in the “New York Times” where he said Americans could not un-see what they saw at the presidential debate in Atlanta in June.
Democratic National Committee Chair Jamie Harrison is trying his hardest to convince party leaders to stay with Biden. He says one bad debate performance should not dictate Biden’s entire time in office. D.C. sources say Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is telling Democratic donors that he is now open to replacing Biden on the ticket
