Adam Schiff claims he wasn't part of 'coordinated effort' to force Biden out

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., claimed he was not part of a "coordinated effort" to pressure President Biden to drop out of the race despite being one of the first to publicly ask him to withdraw.

"I can't speak to the private efforts that either Speaker Pelosi or Chuck Schumer or Hakeem Jeffries were undertaking, because I really wasn’t part of those internal discussions, so I don’t know what they were conveying to the president except that they were conveying the feedback they got from members of the House and Senate," Schiff told the co-hosts of ABC's "The View" on Wednesday.

He continued, "I can only speak for myself. I wasn’t part of a coordinated effort."

Schiff was one of the first prominent Democrats to publicly call on Biden to drop out of the race in the weeks following the president's disastrous debate performance.

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"I really resisted wanting to say what I ultimately felt I needed to, but having worked on the January 6th committee, having worked on impeachment of the former president, having the grave concerns that I have that if we go back to the disastrous presidency of Donald Trump, it could be the end of our democracy as we know it," the California congressman and U.S. Senate candidate told the daytime hosts.

"I felt compelled to speak out, but I can tell you only for myself, it wasn’t part of a coordinated effort but rather a reluctant decision to say what I think many Americans were thinking and that is, we really need someone who can prosecute the case vigorously against Donald Trump, to protect our country from the likes of Donald Trump," he added.

Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin asked Schiff if the White House had work to do in