From New York Times, I'm Michael Bolborrow. This is the Daily.

For the past three days, Joe Biden has fought to save his re-election campaign as panicked

congressional Democrats returned to Washington and openly debated whether to call on him

to step aside.

Today, my colleagues in Washington go inside the 72 hours that could make or break Biden's nomination.

It's Thursday, July 11th.

As the sun rose on Monday morning,

President Biden's nomination was already under siege.

CBS News learned today at least four more top Democratic congressmen are urging the

president to step aside. Over the weekend, despite Biden's repeated claims that he would not drop out of the race.

A handful of senior house Democrats said that they thought he needed to end his candidacy during a conference call that quickly leaked out.

The Congressman Jerry Nadler told his colleagues that it's time for a new nominee.

One of them, Representative Adam Smith,

the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee,

went public on CNN and joined a small but growing list of sitting Democratic lawmakers saying publicly

that Biden had to go. Where are you on this issue? What's your message to

President Biden and to your fellow Democrats? Well, look, I think he should step aside.

I think it's...

Meanwhile, our colleagues at the Times were privately talking with congressional Democrats

who had stayed quiet, and they told us that a resounding number of those Democrats wanted

Biden out. One of them estimated that in all his communication with lawmakers and

their aides it was about 9 to 1 against Biden. So Monday morning was supposed to be a reset, but it didn't offer much relief.

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