Some House Democrats have rallied round Biden. It’s a different game in the Senate

President Joe Biden seemed to stem his bleeding support among some Democrats in the House of Representatives, particularly progressives. Meanwhile, the Senate continues to have lingering questions, following the president’s disastrous debate performance last month.

On Monday, the president sent a letter to congressional Democrats saying he is “firmly committed” to staying in the presidential race against Donald Trump.

During votes on Monday evening, many House Democrats — specifically members of the Congressional Black Caucus — reiterated their support for Biden.

Caucus chairman Steven Horsford, who also represents the swing state of Nevada, said Biden is and would be the nominee in a statement.

“President Biden is the nominee and has been selected by millions of voters across this country, including voters in Nevada,” he said.

Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman of New Jersey told The Independent that her voters said they felt bad for him after his debate performance, where Biden had a hoarse voice and tripped over his own sentences, “[b]ut my constituents have been saying to me as they encounter me in church and out in the Fourth of July and stuff, ‘Tell President Biden that we are with him, make sure you use your voice to communicate that.’”

It was not just members of the CBC, a longtime base of support for Biden, that defended Biden. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York also defended the president to reporters.

“Now, what I think the president does need to do is continue to lean in and move further towards the working class and be more assertive in providing an affirmative vision for this country and expand in his policies and vision for a second term,” she said.

Representative Ilhan Omar of