Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reportedly told President Joe Biden in a private conversation this week that polling shows that if he continues his reelection bid, he would lose to GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and damage the Democratic Party's chances of retaking the House and keeping the Senate in November.
The conversation came within days of other top Washington Democrats reportedly making similar private statements to Biden about ending his bid, amid signs the 81-year-old president is showing signs of being too old for a second term.
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, of New York, reportedly went further than Pelosi, a California Democrat by telling Biden in a private conversation that he should leave the presidential race.
