A handful more top Democrats on Wednesday questioned Joe Biden\u2019s viability as a presidential candidate \u2014 and while there\u2019s no flood of defections, several are publicly saying time is running out for the president to decide the future of his campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rep.\u00a0Jim Clyburn\u00a0(D-S.C.) said he\u00a0would support a \u201cmini-primary\u201d<\/a>\u00a0ahead of the August convention to decide the nominee if Biden steps aside, while Rep.\u00a0Summer Lee\u00a0(D-Pa.) called Vice President Kamala Harris the \u201cobvious choice\u201d for the top of the ticket if he does. Sen.\u00a0Peter Welch\u00a0(D-Vt.) repeated that the \u201cclock is ticking\u201d for the president to convince voters he can perform unscripted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And later Wednesday, Rep.\u00a0Raul Grijalva\u00a0(D-Ariz.)\u00a0became the second House Democrat<\/a>\u00a0to call for Biden to abandon his bid for a second term following his shaky debate performance last week. In\u00a0an interview with The New York Times<\/a>, Grijalva said the president should \u201cshoulder the responsibility for keeping that seat \u2014 and part of that responsibility is to get out of this race.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A handful more top Democrats on Wednesday questioned Joe Biden\u2019s viability as a presidential candidate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":79127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2811],"tags":[10994,11148],"class_list":["post-79126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-joe-biden","tag-us-election-2024"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79128,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79126\/revisions\/79128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}