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Key senator Joe Manchin urges Biden to step aside as polls show Trump rise
- ‘I think it’s time to pass the torch,’ Manchin said, as a poll from swing state Michigan indicated growing sense Biden will lose to Trump
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An influential US senator on Sunday joined calls for US President Joe Biden to end his candidacy in favour of a younger Democrat, while a shock poll from the swing state of Michigan illustrated the growing sense that he will lose to Donald Trump if he stays in the race.
“I came to this decision with a heavy heart, but I think it’s time to pass the torch to a new generation,” Senator Joe Manchin, a Democrat-leaning independent from West Virginia, said on CNN.
The call from a long-time friend of the president’s reinforced a swell of increasingly urgent pleas from top party officials for the 81-year-old Biden to step aside as signs mount of his eroding support.
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Biden’s ability to fight back has been limited; he has been isolating with Covid-19 at his Delaware home since Wednesday, his health said to be improving but his public face limited to a series of attacks on Trump on social media.
Meantime, a new poll from the battleground state of Michigan – where Trump, his right ear bandaged from the recent attempt on his life, held a raucous rally on Saturday carried grim news for the president.
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