The ground shifts beneath Biden: From the Politics Desk

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In today’s edition, we report on how the walls are closing in on President Joe Biden amid mounting pressure for him to exit the 2024 race. Plus, senior political reporter Jonathan Allen looks back at the staying power of Donald Trump as he prepares to again accept the Republican presidential nomination.

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Biden world braces for the possibility that the president steps aside

By Natasha Korecki, Carol E. Lee and Monica Alba

President Joe Biden’s political world is collapsing. Top allies have either publicly or privately called on him to step aside. Major donations have fallen off a cliff. Grassroots fundraising is not keeping up with the demands of a campaign that needs to aggressively scale up three months before the presidential election. Members of his own re-election effort have already declared he has no path to victory.

Since a disastrous debate in Atlanta upended the trajectory of his campaign three weeks ago, Biden has again and again attempted to dig in, bucking efforts to dislodge him from power.

But there is now a palpable sense that the ground has shifted underneath him, according to five people with knowledge of the situation, even among some of the president’s most defiant internal backers who now believe the writing is on