House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has scheduled a virtual meeting for Sunday afternoon with top committee Democrats amidst mounting concerns over President Joe Biden’s viability in the presidential race. According to a House Democratic official familiar with the plan, the meeting has been confirmed but the specific agenda has not been disclosed by Jeffries, who hails from New York. The call for the meeting on Friday by Jeffries comes amid increasing dissent among Democratic lawmakers, some of whom are diverging from the party’s leadership that continues to stand by Biden following his lackluster performance in the June 27 debate against…

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