Thirty-five Democrats in the US Congress have called on Biden to resign via Reuters

Written by Moira Warburton

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – 35 members of Congress have publicly called on Democratic President Joe Biden to drop his re-election bid after Republican rival Donald Trump stopped a debate.

They represent more than one in eight Democrats in Congress, where Biden's party controls 213 seats in the House of Representatives and 51 in the Senate.

Here is a list of Democratic US lawmakers who have publicly and directly asked Biden not to run again.

SENATORS

Sherrod Brown (Ohio)

Martin Heinrich (New Mexico)

Jon Tester (Montana)

Peter Welch (Vermont)

REPRESENTATIVES

Mark Takano (California's 39th district)

Earl Blumenauer (Oregon's 3rd district)

Ed Case (First District of Hawaii)

Sean Casten (6th Illinois District)

Jim Costa (California's 21st District)

Angie Craig (Minnesota's second district)

Lloyd Doggett (Texas' 37th state)

Jesus “Chuy” Garcia (Fourth District of Illinois)

Raul Grijalva (Arizona's 7th district)

Jim Himes (Connecticut's 4th district)

Jared Huffman (California's second district)

Greg Landsman (1st Ohio State)

Mike Levin (California's 49th District)

Zoe Lofgren (California's 18th district)

Seth Moulton (Massachusetts 6th district)

Betty McCollum (Minnesota's 4th district)

Morgan McGarvey (Third District of Kentucky)

Scott Peters (California's 50th District)

Brittany Pettersen (Colorado's 7th District)

Mark Pocan (Wisconsin's second district)

Mike Quigley (Illinois' 5th district)

Pat Ryan (New York's 18th district)

Adam Schiff (California's 30th District)

Brad Schneider (Illinois' 10th District)

Hillary Scholten (Michigan's 3rd district)

Mikie Sherrill (New Jersey's 11th district)

Adam Smith (Washington's 9th district)

Eric Sorensen (Illinois' 17th district)

Greg Stanton (Arizona's fourth district)

Gabe Vasquez (New Mexico's second district)

Marc Veasey (33rd Texas District)