Biden campaign defiant as more Democrats call on him to step aside

President Joe Biden’s top campaign staffer insisted on Friday that he would stay in the race even as calls grew among his fellow Democrats in Congress for him to end his floundering reelection bid and make way for a new candidate.

More than one in ten congressional Democrats have now publicly called on the 81-year-old incumbent — who is isolating at his Delaware home with a case of Covid — to drop out following a disastrous June debate against Republican Donald Trump that...