Biden was isolating in his beach house after getting COVID earlier this week. But he said in a statement on Friday that he would be back on the campaign trail next week.
His party has gone through an excruciatingly public deliberation over the past three weeks after Biden froze up during a debate with former President Donald Trump. Top leaders in Congress have failed to publicly deny a steady drip of leaks that they've appealed to Biden to step aside for a younger candidate because they think he can't win the election.
Asked about the scores of headlines reporting that Biden is considering whether to leave the race, his campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon told MSNBC’s Morning Joe that party leaders should consider the strong grassroots support for Biden and resolve their doubts over whether he should stay in the race for a second term.
“You have heard from the president directly time and again. He is in this race to win and he is our nominee and he's going to be our president for a second term," O'Malley Dillon said.
More Democrats ask Biden to step aside
There are now four senators who have asked their former long-time colleague to step aside. On Friday — the morning after Trump's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention — Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., joined the aria-label="advertisement" id="ad-backstage-wrap" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.34px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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