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Former Biden Staffers Circulate Petition Calling for Him to Exit Race (www.thebulwark.com)

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Another petition with the same objective is also circulating among national security and foreign policy officials.

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[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I'm sure they're all Russians and Trumpers too.

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 1 points 1 month ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

FORMER JOE BIDEN STAFFERS ARE CIRCULATING a petition calling on their onetime boss to suspend his presidential campaign.

The effort, launched just yesterday as the chorus of Democrats encouraging Biden to step aside grew, has only a handful of apparent signatories so far.

The petition is the brainchild of Jamie Metzl, a staffer under Biden on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee more than two decades ago.

While a few initial signatories appeared to be fake and others couldn’t be reached, by Thursday afternoon at least one official with significant stature had added his name to the list: Karl Inderfurth, another former staffer for Biden on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who would go on to serve as assistant secretary of state for South Asian affairs during Bill Clinton’s second term.

“I have the utmost respect for President Biden, who I worked with, but I think it is time to pass the baton to a new generation,” Inderfurth said when reached by phone.

Metzl said he did little groundwork ahead of circulating the petition involving former Biden staffers, sending it to his own network of former colleagues before posting it to his Twitter account last night.

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