JUST IN: Top Democrats Claim Biden Will Drop Out This Weekend

Democrats in conversations with the upper echelon of White House leadership believe President Joe Biden is readying an announcement that he will no longer seek reelection.

The report by Axios states that a decision by the embattled president may come as soon as this weekend, according to insiders who asked for confidentiality to discuss private conversations. Co-founders Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen, titans of the Washington, D.C. political class with extensive contacts, wrote that growing pressure from top Democrats including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) might finally have become too great to brush aside.

The imminent about-face will likely be made not long after Biden recovers from a bout of Covid. He remains in isolation and without a public schedule, forcing him to be alone with his thoughts as he contemplates just how badly Election Day could go for his party if he refuses to step aside. Even former President Barack Obama, one of Biden’s closest allies, isn’t stopping former advisors like David Axelrod or liberal celebrity George Clooney from openly calling on Biden to drop out.

From Axios:

The private message, distilled to its bluntest form: The top leaders of his party, his friends and key donors believe he can’t win, can’t change public perceptions of his age and acuity, and can’t deliver congressional majorities.

The president is being told that if he stays in, former President Trump could win in a landslide and wipe away Biden’s legacy and Democrats’ hopes in November.

Pelosi, on Thursday, declined to rebut a report that she directly warned Biden that his obstinance would cost Democrats a chance to take back the House. “The speaker does not want to call on him to resign [as the Democratic nominee], but she will do everything in her power to make sure it happens,” one Pelosi ally told Politico Playbook.

“There’s nothing subtle about Nancy,” another Pelosi ally told Playbook. “She starts with the question: ‘What’s it take to win?’ Then works backwards.”

Similar ominous warnings were delivered by Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), according to ABC News. Both declined to discuss their conversations with the president. Biden campaign co-chair Jeffrey Katzenberg bluntly told the president that donors’ patience is wearing thin and wallets are beginning to close up for good, Semafor reported.

The pressure campaign has reached intolerable levels after Democrats said they fully expect post-shooting polls to show that sympathy for President Trump has been converted into a sizable lead. On Thursday that prediction was proven out: Emerson College released results of the first poll since Saturday’s assassination attempt which showed that Trump leads Biden by 6% nationally and by a margin of up to 10% in swing states he lost four years ago.