‘He Will Never Recover’: Biden Campaign Official Tells NBC His Chances of Winning Are Now ‘Zero’ and He Should Drop Out

NBC News reported on Thursday that sources inside President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign are saying the president’s reelection efforts are doomed.

The bombshell report said that Biden’s “closest allies, including three people who are directly involved in efforts to re-elect him, told NBC News they now see his chances of winning as zero — and the likelihood of him taking down fellow Democratic candidates growing.”

“He needs to drop out. He will never recover from this,” the report quoted one campaign official as saying.

Calls have continued to grow for President Biden to drop out of the race following his disastrous debate against Donald Trump in late June. Sen. Pete Welch (D-VT) became the first sitting Democratic senator on Wednesday night to urge Biden to step aside, despite the president’s stern efforts to rally support and stop the bleeding.

“No one involved in the effort thinks he has a path,” NBC News quoted “a second person working to elect” Biden. The report added:

A third person close to the re-election campaign said the present situation — the questions swirling around Biden’s cognitive abilities, the dearth of fundraising and more polls showing Biden dropping in support and other candidates faring better — is unsustainable. This person also said they didn’t see how the campaign could win.

All of them spoke on the condition of anonymity because they don’t want to be seen as further damaging a candidate they appreciate for his victory over then-President Donald Trump in 2020 and his policy wins in the White House. But two others close to Biden told NBC News that while they haven’t given up all hope of a turnaround, they see that as an increasingly unlikely outcome. And they believe the goal of defeating Trump in November should take precedence over backing Biden.

“The question for me, and a lot of us, is: Who is the best person to beat Donald Trump? There are a lot of us that are true blue that are questioning our initial thoughts on that,” the report quoted another staffer, highlighting the challenge facing those in Biden’s camp who fear their candidate can no longer win.

Read the full report here.

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