United States President Joe Biden has promised to remain in the presidential race and beat his opponent despite growing calls from members of his Democratic Party asking him to withdraw. The 81-year-old, who is isolating at his beach house in Delaware since his COVID-19 diagnosis, took aim at his rival Donald Trump \u2013 who just wrapped up the Republican National Convention \u2013 in a series of posts online on Friday, and said he would return to campaigning next week. Trump\u2019s \u201cdark vision for the future is not who we are as Americans. Together, as a party and as a country, we can and will defeat him at the ballot box,\u201d Biden said. \u201cThe stakes are high, and the choice is clear. Together, we will win.\u201d But 12 more Democratic politicians, including two senators and a group of Congress members, called on the president to step aside. Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown, a Democrat who is in a tough race for re-election, said in a statement late on Friday that he agrees with \u201cthe many Ohioans\u201d who have reached out to him asking for Biden to end his campaign. New Mexico Senator Martin Heinrich, who is also up for re-election, became the third Senate Democrat to call for Biden\u2019s exit. \u201cBy passing the torch, he would secure his legacy as one of our nation\u2019s greatest leaders and allow us to unite behind a candidate who can best defeat Donald Trump and safeguard the future of our democracy,\u201d he said. Top Democratic figures, including Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries and Nancy Pelosi, have also privately pressured the president to quit, according to media reports. \u201cHe\u2019s not going anywhere,\u201d Biden campaign chair Jen O\u2019Malley Dillon said on MSNBC\u2019s Morning Joe show, and called him the \u201cbest person to take on Donald Trump\u201d. She indicated that the growing unease among top Democrats about Biden\u2019s candidacy did not reflect the broader sentiment across the party. And in a call with donors on Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris said: \u201cWe are going to win this election,\u201d US media reported. \u201cWe know which candidate in this election puts the American people first: our president, Joe Biden.\u201d A group of Biden\u2019s Democratic detractors are trying to reach him directly through a television advertisement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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