Democratic pushback against President Biden restarts, as he weathers campaign concerns

WASHINGTON (TND) — The calls for President Joe Biden to step aside may have only slowed down, but not stopped entirely.

The President had been facing a growing mutiny in his party asking him to abandon his reelection bid, but the bad press halted when there was an attempt on Donald Trump's life over the weekend.

In an exclusive interview on Monday, NBC News asked Biden if he felt like he had weathered the storm brewing against him.

Look, 14 million people voted for me to be the nominee in the Democratic Party, okay? I listen to them," Biden said.

The New York Times reports the DNC will try to get Biden nominated through a virtual process as early as next week. It could come weeks before the party’s mid-August convention and is getting pushback.

“To try to squelch debate and jam this through is a power play of the highest order," Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif., told the outlet.

Huffman had already expressed concerns about Biden’s candidacy.

If he decides now is the time to pass the torch in the interest in everything he’s done and everything we care about, I will consider him a hero once again," Rep. Huffman said in early July.

He's now reportedly passing around a letter among colleagues asking to delay the nomination. Axios obtained the letter, which reads in part “There is no legal justification for this extraordinary and unprecedented action which would effectively accelerate the nomination process by nearly a month.”

Biden is still getting widespread party support. One of his biggest backers, Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., posted on social media for his fellow Dems to “cut the (expletive)."

The president was hit with another bad public poll this week out of Virginia, a state that hasn’t voted for a Republican presidential candidate in 20 years. It shows Trump with a three-point lead, a reversal from January, when Biden was up three.