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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Sammy Gecsoyler

Democrat calls on Biden to exit race after ‘he didn’t seem to recognise me’

Head and shoulders of Seth Moulton speaking during an interview in Boston in 2017, speaking into a microphone with his right hand raised to express himself
Congressman Seth Moulton says Joe Biden’s failure to recognise him at D-day was part of a ‘deeper problem’. Photograph: Boston Globe/Getty Images

A US congressman has said he decided to join calls for Joe Biden to exit the presidential race after he claimed the 81-year-old appeared not to recognise him at a recent event.

Seth Moulton, a Democratic congressman from Massachusetts, was one of the first Democrats to call for Biden to drop out of the race shortly after his disastrous debate performance last month. On Friday, Moulton ramped up his efforts to oust the president from the 2024 ticket in a damning op-ed for the Boston Globe.

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