Democratic governors of the states of New York, Minnesota and Marylandthey assured this Thursday who pledged their full support to US President Joe Bidenas the president faces a growing wave of voices within and outside his own party calling for him to withdraw from the election campaign.

“The president has our backs (…) and the governors have his back, and we are working together to make that very clear. The path to victory in November is priority number one,” Minnesota Governor Tim Walz told reporters. leaving a meeting with the president.

For his part, Joe Biden has pledged to continue his campaign for re-election “until the end”“, defying increasing pressures so that abandon his candidacy and while his support erodes among congressional Democrats. The president expressed this commitment to continue the campaign during a video call with his electoral team staff in which he told them: “I need you now more than ever. I’m going to keep fighting. We’re going to do this until the end,” sources close to the campaign told EFE.

Meeting with Democratic leaders

After, More than twenty Democratic governors met at the White House in person and virtually with the president to calm the nerves that arose within that political force after his weak performance in the first presidential debate. Maryland Governor Wes Moore has indicated that Biden will clearly emerge victorious from the November elections, while Walz, who is also the president of the Democratic Governors Association, has considered that Biden remains the same strongman who defeated his opponent in the pastformer Republican President Donald Trump (2017–2021).

“Today we saw the guy who we all thought could beat Donald Trump, and he finally beat him,” Walz said. New York Governor Kathy Hochul said the conversation had left her “fully confident” on the president’s abilities to continue his candidacy and added that during the conversation they also discussed how the president will address the main concerns of the American people.

“I’m here to tell you that President Joe Biden is here to win“Hochul said. This afternoon’s meeting was not the initiative of the White House, but rather arose from a call to discuss the debate organized on Monday by the governor of Minnesota.

Other influential figures of the Democratic Party such as former president Barack Obama (2009-2017), have expressed support for the president, however, there are mixed opinions within this political force. In addition, the fear of a possible electoral failure for the Democrats has extended to donors of the party, who have publicly expressed their concern. This Wednesday the co-founder of Netflix and one of the largest donors of the Democratic Party of the United States, Reed Hastings, called for the president’s resignation as a candidate for “allow a vigorous Democratic leader to defeat Trump.”