 to uh democrats who are calling for him to step down he said there was a process to open to anyone who wanted to run only three people chose to challenge me now left out of that statement is the fact that they pressured and arm twisted everyone to stay out of the race of course this is what they did as normal things as presidents do but that was definitely done he said only three people chose to challenge me one fared so badly that he left the primaries to run as an independent