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Former President Barack Obama and ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke privately this week about their growing concerns for President Biden’s 2024 re-election campaign — as a growing number of “very connected Democrats” plot to get him to drop out quickly, according to reports.

Obama and Pelosi are said to have discussed how much harder they think it has become for the embattled 81-year-old president to beat his GOP rival, former President Donald Trump, but neither is sure what to do, sources told CNN.

A slew of Democrats have also been begging Obama and Pelosi behind the scenes to help quickly end the turmoil before even more damage is done just four months before the election, the sources added.


  President Biden held an error-laden “big boy” press conference Thursday night amid calls for him to give up his 2024 re-election campaign. Getty Images President Biden held an error-laden “big boy” press conference Thursday night amid calls for him to give up his 2024 re-election campaign. Getty Images

Biden has rejected mounting calls for him to give up his candidacy in the wake of his train-wreck first presidential debate against Trump on June 27.

Those cries will likely only get louder following his error-laden “big boy” press conference Thursday night, which had only been called to try to dispel the Democratic clamor for Biden to step aside.

“They are watching and waiting for President Biden to reach a decision on his own,” a longtime Democrat close to Obama, Pelosi and Biden told CNN.

Meanwhile, other sources told Axios that high-powered Democrats — mostly veterans of the Obama and Clinton administrations — have been plotting on an hourly basis on how best to get Biden to drop out.

The group, which the outlet dubbed the “unofficial Committee to Unelect the President,” has apparently been firing off a barrage of texts and emails, commissioning polls and organizing donors in a bid to get rid of him.


  Allegedly there is a secret group of high-powered Democrats set on getting Biden to step down from the election. AFP via Getty Images Allegedly there is a secret group of high-powered Democrats set on getting Biden to step down from the election. AFP via Getty Images

Instead of squeezing a defiant Biden and his family, the Dems in question have been trying to pressure the likes of Obama, Pelosi, the Clintons, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), according to the sources.

Obama’s team wouldn’t comment on the reports about his private discussions, while Pelosi’s suggested no one could have such insight.

“There is no member of Congress who would have any knowledge of any conversation that Speaker Pelosi would have with President Obama,” a Pelosi spokesperson said. “Anyone who says they do is not speaking the truth.”


  A spokesperson for Pelosi denies there are any Democrats who could claim any knowledge of any conversations between Pelosi and Obama. Getty Images A spokesperson for Pelosi denies there are any Democrats who could claim any knowledge of any conversations between Pelosi and Obama. Getty Images

The developments came just hours after Biden spoke in a raspy voice, frequently paused to cough and repeatedly lost his train of thought during his closely watched press conference in Washington on Thursday night.

He ended up calling Vice President Kamala Harris “Vice President Trump” — sparking immediate ridicule from his predecessor and 2024 GOP rival on social media.

“Crooked Joe begins his ‘Big Boy’ Press Conference with, ‘I wouldn’t have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president, though I think she was not qualified to be president.’ Great job, Joe!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.

The gaffe came soon after he introduced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as “President [Vladimir] Putin” — confusing him with the Russian tyrant whose forces have waged war on Ukraine for two and a half years.

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