Biden pressure mounts as Democrat says president failed to recognize him at D-Day event: Latest

A Democratic lawmaker said President Joe Biden, who is currently self-isolating at his beach house in Delaware after contracting COVID-19, appeared to not recognize him at a D-Day last month.

Representative Seth Moulton of Massachusetts said the president “didn’t seem to recognize him” at the Normandy, France event in a recent op-ed for The Boston Globe.

“Of course, that can happen as anyone ages but, as I watched the disastrous debate a few weeks ago, I have to admit that what I saw in Normandy was part of a deeper problem,” Moulton wrote.

In the three weeks since his disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump, the 46th president has shrugged off ever-louder calls from within his own party to make way for a younger candidate to take on Trump in November.

By Friday afternoon more than 30 Democratic lawmakers, including four senators, had come forward publicly to call on Biden to go. Influential figures including Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer have reportedly made the same appeal behind the scenes.

While the president has repeated in interviews that he is going nowhere, Axios has reported that he could drop out as soon as this weekend.

36 Democratic lawmakers have called on President Joe Biden to bow out of the 2024 race as of Saturday afternoon.

See The Independent’s full list here:

Twenty-nine Democratic lawmakers have now publicly called on the president to drop out of the 2024 presidential race

Representative Seth Moulton, a Massachusetts Democrat, said he called for Joe Biden to drop out of the race saying the president had appeared to not recognize him.

Moulton was with the president at a D-Day event in Normandy, France last month. There, Biden “didn’t seem to recognize” him, the lawmaker