In the days following President Joe Biden's poor performance on the debate stage,

Democrats have pondered how to approach the future of his re-election campaign.

Congressman Lloyd Doggett of Texas was the first sitting Democratic lawmaker to call on

Biden to drop out of the presidential race. He joins me now.

Congressman, welcome and thanks for joining us. I'm sure you have seen these reports too of a number of your

Democratic colleagues circulating a letter that they are proposing sending to the

president asking him to step aside as the nominee. You've said you're not

involved in those efforts, but I

wonder if you can just give us some insight here. How many of your

Democratic colleagues share your concerns? I think it's widespread and my colleague from Arizona, Raul Grijal Grijava, one of the senior members, a ranking member, was a chairman of the committee.

He just came out publicly this afternoon.

I think that there are many colleagues out there

there are many colleagues out there who realize what a severe brave threat we face

if Donald Trump, a criminal and his gang can take over our government in January.

We may never get it back.

And all those things, climate, you were talking about earlier with the hurricane, needing

to address the climate crisis, protect our public schools,

ensure reproductive freedom, all of the issues we care about at home and abroad are going

to be threatened by Donald Trump.

We have to put forward our strongest candidate.

And after the debate, after a year of lagging in the polls,

today, New York Times poll out that there's six points apart.

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