Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., urged President Joe Biden “not to run” for reelection shortly after Biden’s poor performance in a debate against President-elect Donald Trump in June, The New York Times reported.

In early July, after Biden was widely criticized for his debate performance, Schumer repeatedly said, “I’m with Joe” when asked in a press conference if the president should step aside as the Democratic Party nominee.

However, Schumer told the Times in an interview released on Friday that he met privately with Biden on July 13 and told the president, “If you run and you lose to Trump, and we lose the Senate, and we don’t get back the House, that 50 years of amazing, beautiful work goes out the window.”

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