The Walls Are Getting Tighter Around Biden

The president now has COVID. That might be the simplest thing for him to resolve.

President Joe Biden and Maritza Rodriguez, Biden for President Latina adviser
President Joe Biden and Maritza Rodriguez, Biden for President Latina adviser, greets patrons at Linda Michoacan Mexican Restaurant, during a stop in Las Vegas. Susan Walsh/AP

Wednesday was supposed to be the return to business as usual for Joe Biden’s camp. Instead, it was a return to the new normal for Democrats: the rising din of infighting that threatens to drown out everything else.

“You want to know when this ends?” a House Democrat asked NOTUS on Wednesday. “When the six people Joe Biden has been talking to since the debate stop ignoring everything outside the room they’ve been locked in. When that changes, the dam breaks.”

Wednesday evening, Jonathan Karl of ABC News reported that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer had a “blunt one-on-one conversation with Biden” on Saturday, in which Schumer “forcefully made the case” that Biden should step aside.