Rep Is First House Dem To Ask Biden To Step Down

The Texas Tribune reports:

U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, called on President Joe Biden to step down as his party’s nominee for the White House on Tuesday citing the president’s poor performance at a debate against former President Donald Trump last week.

“President Biden has continued to run substantially behind Democratic senators in key states and in most polls has trailed Donald Trump,” Doggett said in a statement Tuesday. “I had hoped that the debate would provide some momentum to change that. It did not. Instead of reassuring voters, the President failed to effectively defend his many accomplishments and expose Trump’s many lies.”

Doggett, 77, is the first Democratic member of Congress from Texas to call for Biden to withdraw from the ticket.

Read the full article. Doggett, 77, was first elected in 1994. Despite his 15 terms in the US House, his sole previous JMG appearance came in 2017 when House Republicans blocked his resolution seeking Trump’s tax returns.

BREAKING: Texas Rep. Lloyd Doggett becomes the first Democratic lawmaker to call for President Joe Biden to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race. https://t.co/7qLZxsufWl

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