In a letter dated July 6, Rep. Jamie Raskin urged President Joe Biden to reconsider his re-election bid, joining dozens of other prominent Democrats who have publicly called for their presumptive nominee to step aside.
In his four-page letter, first reported by The New York Times and later obtained by NBC News, Raskin doesn't explicitly call for Biden to drop out. Rather, he warns that the country is "under siege every day by the autocrats and monarchists, from Moscow to Mar-A-Lago" and that the stakes of the November election are high.
"I am not writing to presume to tell you what to do, Mr. President, because that is up to you and Jill and your family entirely," Rasking wrote, adding: "No one envies the choice you must make now, Mr. President, but remember this as the great politician you are and have always been."
"The hard questions that have been raised about your mental and physical stamina ... are not just medical and scientific questions now," he added. "They are also political questions because both political leaders and tens of millions of voting citizens have formed judgments based on the events of the last few weeks."
Read Raskin's full letter below: