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Posted: 2024-07-12T16:13:20Z | Updated: 2024-07-12T16:13:20Z

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) met with President Joe Biden after his NATO press conference Thursday night amid the dissension about Biden within his caucus but didnt reveal whether he advised Biden to stay in the presidential race.

In a letter Friday morning, Jeffries said he expressed to Biden the views of House Democrats , but he offered no other details of the meeting or Bidens response.

On behalf of the House Democratic Caucus, I requested and was graciously granted a private meeting with President Joe Biden. The meeting occurred yesterday evening, Jeffries wrote. In my conversation with President Biden, I directly expressed the full breadth of insight, heartfelt perspectives and conclusions about the path forward that the caucus has shared in our recent time together.

The letter was anything but a ringing endorsement of Biden as the partys presidential nominee. Congressional Democrats have struggled to project an enthusiastic united front in support of the 81-year-old president as new polling shows Biden trailing in swing states and reports suggest the presidents campaign is seeing fundraising slow.