Sen. Chuck Schumer urged Joe Biden during a private meeting on a lakeside porch in mid-July to drop out of the 2024 race, telling the President that as few as five Democratic senators privately supported his re-election campaign and that a loss to Donald Trump could make him “one of the darkest figures” in American political history.
Citing sources familiar with the one-on-one conversation at Biden’s lake home at Rehoboth Beach, New York Times correspondents and authors Annie Karni and Luke Broadwater wrote about the fraught exchange in their book Mad House: How Donald Trump, MAGA Mean Girls, a Former Used Car Salesman, a Florida Nepo Baby, and a Man With Rats in His Walls Broke Congress.