 Well, Joe Biden's team is continuing to defend him, but that task is getting harder almost by the hour. Hillary Scholten, a congresswoman from the battleground state of Michigan, appealed to Mr Biden to pull out, as she put it, for the good of democracy. In the last few minutes, the Democratic congressman Brad Schneider also said President Biden has to go before the autumn. And at a news conference, the House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries,