January 6 committee members are telling Biden to step aside: ‘Trump cannot be elected’

Donald Trump and his Republican allies have called for the prosecution of members of a congressional committee that put him at the center of the attack on the Capitol, and his failed campaign to overturn 2020 election results.

At least three of those committee members have joined a growing chorus of Democratic officials urging President Joe Biden to end his re-election campaign with a warning that his Republican rival poses a “grave” threat, if elected.

Congressman Adam Schiff warned in a statement this week that a “second Trump presidency will undermine the very foundation of our democracy, and I have serious concerns about whether the President can defeat Donald Trump in November.”

In a recent four-page letter to Biden, congressman Jamie Raskin told the president that “everything we believe in is on the line in the next four-and-a-half months” and that “we have an overriding obligation to defeat the forces of resurgent monarchy and oppression.”

“Everything else pales in comparison to this struggle,” he added.

Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren said in a statement this week that, as a member of the January 6 committee, she knows “perhaps as well as anyone, how unsuitable Donald Trump is to be president.”

“His policies are wrong. His character is unprincipled and corrupt. He remains as grave a threat to the Constitutional order and rule of law that he was on January 6, 2021 when he incited insurrection,” she wrote. “And, if he is elected President again, he will dismantle all that Democrats have achieved for the American people.”

“I think from the data it’s pretty clear,” she told MSNBC on July 19, “that the president is on a trajectory to not prevailing in the election, and I think it’s telling that members of the January 6