 i want to be careful in how i phrase this but four senior sources in the democratic party some on capitol hill some senior officials in the biden campaign no longer believe that joe biden will be the democratic nominee they don't believe any additional pressure will need to be applied they don't believe it depends on how well he does in his interview with abc news today these officials have been largely shut out from deliberations believing that joe biden had put himself in effectively a a metaphorical bunker with his family no longer