Joe Biden latest news: $90 million of president's donations frozen
By: The Telegraph
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Donors are withholding $90 million in funding to the Democrat party unless Joe Biden pulls out of the presidential race.
The money was on hold at the biggest pro-Biden political action committee, Future Forward, sources told the New York Times.
It comes as Axios reported that there was a "donor strike" building, in which key donors were diverting funding into congressional races and away from Mr Biden.
Plans are under way by critics of Mr Biden to push him out of office amid renewed calls for him to step aside after a Nato press conference in which he referred to Kamala Harris as "Vice President Trump" and Volodymyr Zelensky as "President Putin".
Some of Mr Biden's closest allies from his long career, including Barack Obama, are also said to be concerned about him staying in the race. But Mr Biden's team gave a robust defence of the president and appear to be digging in to keep his campaign alive.
Mr Biden is set to give a speech on Friday night (US time) bashing rival Donald Trump in Detroit in the rust-belt state of Michigan, a crucial battleground state that the Democrat must win in November's election.
A defiant Biden insisted in a pivotal appearance at a Nato summit on Thursday that he would run again, and win - despite concerns about his age and health following a disastrous debate performance two weeks ago.
But a series of gaffes have kept Biden's fitness for a second term under the microscope.
Hakeem Jeffries, the top Democrat in the House of Representatives, said he had met with Mr Biden on Thursday, as the number of members calling on the president to step aside rose to 20.
Mr Jeffries said he "expressed the full breadth of insight, heartfelt perspectives and conclusions about the path forward" to and Mr Biden but did not give further details.
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and all the leading Michigan democrats are refusing to appear with him to campaign
Honest unrelated non political question :
Do you think he will be alive in 5 years ?
Sometimes the body outlasts the mind. Although my 99 year old father with dementia still recognizes his kids, enjoys the every other day lunches and has good spirits so that is all that is important at this point.