An official in former President Barack Obama’s cabinet called on President Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential race amid worsening signs for his re-election campaign.
Former HUD Secretary Julian Castro said in a post on X that Biden’s disastrous debate performance last week against former President Donald Trump “disturbingly demonstrated that he is unable to effectively prosecute the case against Donald Trump—much less inspire and mobilize voters to the polls.”
Castro claimed that Biden had a strong record as president, but said that “a strong record is not enough when the stakes are this high.”
“Sadly, President Biden is not the campaigner he was in 2020—and looks very likely to lose to Trump,” he said. “I am convinced that a number of other Democrats, including Vice President Harris, stand a better chance of winning.”
“Defeating Donald Trump is too…
