“If he’s the candidate, I’m going to support him, but I think that this is an opportunity to look elsewhere,” Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) told the New York Times Wednesday.
An Arizona Democrat became the fourth party member in the House of Representatives to deny that President Biden can win re-election — and the second to call for him to exit the race.
“If he’s the candidate, I’m going to support him, but I think that this is an opportunity to look elsewhere,” Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) told the New York Times Wednesday.
“What he needs to do is shoulder the responsibility for keeping that seat — and part of that responsibility is to get out of this race.”
Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) was the first House Democrat to tell the oldest-ever president it was time to call it quits on Tuesday, citing Biden’s lackluster debate performance against former President Donald Trump that worsened the 81-year-old’s lagging poll numbers.
Reps. Jared Golden (D-Me.) and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.), who co-chair the moderate Blue Dog Coalition, declared the same day that they thought Biden would lose to Trump, but stopped short of directly calling on the president to drop out.
