Growing concerns within the Democratic Party about President Joe Biden’s electability against former President Donald Trump have led some congressional Democrats to consider pushing for Biden’s withdrawal from the race. Raymond James Washington policy analyst and managing director Ed Mills joins Morning Brief to discuss this evolving political landscape. Mills observes "it’s very clear" that some Democrats want Biden to step aside, but "it’s also very clear… that Biden himself wants to stay in this race." He explains that Biden has secured the delegates needed to become the nominee ahead of August’s Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago. "If he wants to be the nominee, he has the ability to be the nominee unless delegates decide to change the rules, and then we have a really messy situation on our hands," Mills says. Biden’s perspective is that this is the same group that pushed him out in 2016, "which gave us the presidency of Donald Trump in the first place," Mills tells Yahoo Finance. However, Mills notes that if a new Democratic presidential candidate were to emerge, they would face the challenging task of shifting the narrative from Biden’s perceived weaknesses to Trump’s unfavorability.
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