Democrats emerged from an all-caucus meeting on Tuesday with little consensus on what to do about President Joe Biden's presidential campaign, which they now believe is on life support.
As relayed by Punchbowl News' Jake Sherman, one source said that the meeting "felt like a funeral" as the party grappled with how to handle the fallout from Biden's disastrous debate performance against former President Donald Trump, whom polls suggest is currently winning the race.
Rep. Mark Takano (D-CA) even said he saw a poll showing Biden was losing in his district even as the president won with 62 percent of the vote in 2020.
Fellow Punchbowl News reporter Mica Soellner, meanwhile, relayed that there was a lot of "frustration" inside the meeting but that no consensus had yet emerged on what to do about Biden.
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Punchbowl's Heather Caygle reports that Democrats seem to believe they're stuck with Biden even though they believe his candidacy is doomed.
"I haven't talked to one [Democrat] who privately says they think Biden is capable of running and beating Trump at this point," she wrote. "The debate was just a public airing of the concerns many of them have experienced/expressed privately. And that was from those who felt they actually got time with the president over the last year. Others have complained about very limited/controlled interactions. BUT they also don't want to be ostracized publicly and/or feel it's already determined that Biden will be the nominee."
