Sen. Chuck Schumer urged Joe Biden during a private meeting on a lakeside porch in mid-July to drop out of the 2024 race, telling the President that as few as five Democratic senators privately supported his re-election campaign and that a loss to Donald Trump could make him "one of the darkest figures" in American political history.

You may be a better one,’ the former president told the Democratic Senate leader while urging him to speak to Biden about dropping out.