President Biden speaks during a campaign event at the Martin Luther King Recreation Center in Philadelphia April 18, 2024. (Hannah Beier/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The Democratic Rules and Bylaws Committee voted earlier this year to adopt Biden's own proposal to have South Carolina, a strong state that helped catapult Biden toward the nomination in 2020, vote first on the Democrats' nominating calendar in 2024. Under his proposal, New Hampshire and Nevada, where he was weaker in 2020, would hold primaries a few days later.
New Hampshire rejected the new rules in the 2024 primary, and Biden’s name did not appear on the primary ballot. But he still won by a wide margin due to voters who wrote in his name.
Biden also delayed committing to a debate with his presumptive rival for the presidency for months. Biden said it "depends" on the former president’s "behavior" whether he agreed to a debate when asked by reporters in March about a faceoff with Trump.
President Biden walks on the South Lawn of the White House after arriving aboard Marine One in Washington, D.C., Sept. 4, 2023. (Michael Reynolds/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Democratic Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey publicly urged President Biden to "listen to the American people" and consider whether he is the best person for the party to put forward as it again tries to defeat Trump in November.
"President Biden saved our democracy in 2020 and has done an outstanding job over the last four years," Healey said in a statement distributed by her political committee Friday. "I am deeply grateful for his leadership. And I know he agrees this is the most important election of our lifetimes.
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"Over the coming days, I urge him to listen to the American people and carefully evaluate whether he remains our best hope to defeat Donald Trump. Whatever President Biden decides, I am committed to doing everything in my power to defeat Donald Trump."
At an Independence Day event Thursday, Biden seemed defiant, telling a crowd at the White House he's "not going anywhere."
Brianna Herlihy is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
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