text:  said today, quote, as I've said before, I'm for Joe and he will play a major role on the next steps. His counterpart in the House, that is House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, also backed Biden recently. That all said, there's many speaking privately about their quiet concerns and hopes for Biden to leave the race, including a handful of senior House Democrats who expressed those concerns in a private call with Jeffries and other leaders yesterday.