 and he has said for weeks frankly in the face of the calls to step down that he is in this race i have described it as um he's swimming against the tide and i think as long as the president would like to swim he is going to continue to stay in the race and uh it's really a standoff right now ryan you have elected leaders on capitol hill more which are coming out by the hour saying uh they like joe biden but he should step down then on the other hand you have