A group of business leaders and philanthropists led by a former Obama administration official is calling on President Joe Biden to end his reelection bid “to protect democracy” following his disastrous debate performance last week against former President Donald Trump.
“The threat of a second Trump term is such that we must ask President Biden and the Democratic Party to pass the torch of this year’s presidential nomination to the next generation of highly capable Democrats,” said a statement from the Leadership Now Project. “This process will undoubtedly be messy and is not without risk. However, the stakes are too high not to act.”
The Leadership Now Project’s CEO and co-founder is Daniella Ballou-Aares, who spent five years in the Obama administration as senior adviser for development to the Secretary of State, serving under Hillary Clinton and John Kerry. The organization’s leadership includes other former Obama administration officials, such as senior adviser Michelle Greene, who worked in the Treasury Department, and chief communications officer Elissa Doyle, who worked on Obama’s transition team in 2009.
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