Biden tests positive for Covid at a key moment in the campaign and as pressure grows for him to drop out

Joe Biden has tested positive for covid this Wednesday, a contagion that comes in the most inopportune moment for the US president, who has been forced to cancel a campaign event he had planned for this Wednesday in Las Vegas, while pressure continues to mount from within his own party for him to step aside and abandon the race for the White House.

The Democratic president, who had just said in an interview that he would withdraw if a doctor told him he had a health problem, tested positive while campaigning in the key state of Nevada, although he has only “mild symptoms” and no fever, according to the White House. However, he was seen entering Air Force One with a tired look on his face and canceling the pre-campaign events planned for today.

The president said in an interview earlier in the day that he would reconsider his decision to continue his election campaign if a doctor diagnosed him with a serious medical problem, which is the first time he has left the door open to withdrawing from his candidacy.

The news comes at a very delicate moment for Biden, in which pressure has intensified for him to withdraw his candidacy for the November electionsIn recent hours, influential Democratic lawmaker Adam Schiff has publicly urged him to “pass the baton.”

Democrats are worried while Republicans, united, have backed Trump and his future Vice President James David Vance (JD Vance). The Republican candidate has thus officially accepted the appointment a few hours ago.