The pressures on him are increasing Joe Biden to withdraw from the November 5 US presidential election, with Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi leading the backlash and asking the current president to reconsider his candidacy.

According to the Washington Post, the former president Barack Obama reportedly told aides that Joe Biden’s run to victory has slowed significantly and believes the US president should seriously consider the viability of his candidacy.

Meanwhile, White House officials believe former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was behind the congressman’s exhortation. Adam Schiff to President Joe Biden to drop out of the US presidential race and that she told Biden he could not win the Nov. 5 election, a senior White House source with direct knowledge of the matter said.

Schiff said in a statement yesterday that he had “serious concerns” about whether Biden could beat Republican rival Donald Trump, the first Democrat to speak out since Saturday’s assassination attempt on the former president. . Joe Biden’s campaign team believed the shooting incident, during which Trump was injured in his right ear, dampened calls for the US president to drop out of the race before Schiff’s statement. .

“Nancy is behind it. He doesn’t miss an opportunity. Schiff would not have made this move without her approval,” said the source, who did not want to be named.

THE Pelosi she is “convinced that public sentiment is against the president of the United States and that he cannot change it,” the source added.

Pelosi’s office and the White House did not respond to requests for comment.

Nancy Pelosi, one of the most influential members of Biden’s party and a fixture in Washington for decades, routinely quotes a quote from a speech given by former President Abraham Lincoln at leadership meetings, according to the source. In the speech, Lincoln said “With common sense, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.”

“I don’t think I would say he’s dropping out of the race,” before the public exhortation from top Democratic leadership figures, the source said. “I hadn’t seen him bend, but now who knows?”

“There is a path” to victory, “but it will be difficult. It won’t be easy for Kamala,” the source added, referring to Vice President Kamala Harris, who would potentially replace Biden as the Democratic nominee in the election.

Democrats are “doing this to ourselves. It’s disappointing, but we have to do it, with or without a change” on the ballot, the source said, adding that there was “no other option”.

Biden: I would consider retiring if I had a health problem

Joe Biden said in an interview released Wednesday that he would reconsider staying in the presidential race if a doctor told him straight up that he had a medical condition and deemed it necessary to withdraw.

Biden made this specific answer when he was asked during an interview with Ed Gordon of BET News if there was anything that would make him reevaluate staying in the race, as reported by the New York Times.

“If I had a medical condition, if someone, if the doctors came to me and said, you have this problem,” Biden said.

This is the latest in a series of different statements about what could make him reconsider. In an interview with ABC News this month, Biden said he would only quit if “the Lord Almighty” told him to. At a news conference in Washington several days later, he said he would stay in the race unless his staff proved to him he could never win.

At the same time, the Democratic National Committee postponed the process of formally anointing Biden for a week as the party’s voters and many of its top officials continue to express their dissatisfaction with his candidacy.

Top party officials announced on Wednesday that the process will take place in the first week of August.