 After weeks of insisting he would stay in the race, Biden appears to have changed his mind as private appeals and public calls have intensified among prominent Democratic politicians, including Senator Chuck Schumer, Representative Jamie Raskin, Nancy Pelosi, and Barack Obama. Newsmax wrote decisively that Biden had made the decision to drop out, and even that he planned not to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for the nomination, setting the stage for an open nomination process at the convention next month.