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Hakeem Jeffries says he met with president; big Democratic donors reportedly freeze money in objection to Biden candidacy – live

Hakeem Jeffries reportedly did not offer Biden his endorsement in private meeting – as it happened

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/jul/12/biden-press-conference-election-campaign-michigan-democrats-updates

Top House Democrat shared caucus’s ‘heartfelt perspectives and conclusions about the path forward’ with Biden but did not endorse president’s campaign

Hakeem Jeffries reportedly did not offer Biden his endorsement in private meeting – as it happened

The House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries said he shared lawmakers’ “insight, heartfelt perspectives and conclusions about the path forward” in a private meeting with Joe Biden yesterday.

The meeting came after more than a dozen House Democrats publicly called on the president to end his bid for re-election after his stumbling performance against Donald Trump in their first debate.

Jeffries had promised that he would talk to Biden after speaking with all of the 213 Democrats in the House of Representatives, and, in a letter to lawmakers today, he indicated that he has done so, without elaborating on Biden’s response.

Deep-pocketed Democratic donors are putting multimillion-dollar pledges on hold and saying they won’t hand over the money until Joe Biden abandons his re-election campaign, the New York Times reports.

Others are holding off on giving any more money to Future Forward, the largest Super Pac supporting the president’s campaign.

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