Democratic Congresswoman Calls on Biden to RESIGN: ‘Americans Deserve to Feel Their President Is Fit’

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Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA) became the first Democrat on Capitol Hill to call on President Joe Biden to not only drop out of the presidential race, but to resign from office on Thursday.

“I’ve spent the past two weeks listening to my constituents express their concerns about the President’s age and health. Like most people I represent in Southwest Washington, I doubt the President’s judgement about his health, his fitness to do the job, and whether he is the one making important decisions about our country, rather than unelected advisors,” said Gluesenkamp Perez in a statement. “Americans deserve to feel their president is fit enough to do the job. The crisis of confidence in the President’s leadership needs to come to an end. The President should do what he knows is right for the country and put the national interest first.”

Woah – Rep. Marie Glusenkamp Perez suggests that Biden should not only withdraw from the race but also resign from office.

“I doubt the President’s judgement about his health, his fitness to do the job, and whether he is the one making important decisions about our country,…

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A number of Gluesenkamp Perez’s colleagues have suggested that Biden should step aside and allow someone else to top the Democratic ticket this November, but she is the first of them to also argue that he should resign.

Earlier this month, the first-term congresswoman observed that “about 50 million Americans tuned in and watched that debate. I was one of them for about five very painful minutes.”

“We all saw what we saw, you can’t undo that, and the truth I think, is that Biden is going to lose to Trump,” she added. “I know that’s difficult, but I think the damage has been done by that debate.”

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