A House Democrat from Texas has become the first to call for Biden to withdraw from the race after this debate performance last week.

Rep. Lloyd Doggett, whose House career began in 1995, didn’t frame his statements around Biden’s obvious cognitive problems. But rather, he pointed to Biden’s failure to defend his record and “expose Trump’s many lies.”

Here’s more from The Hill:

Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) on Tuesday became the first House Democrat to publicly urge President Biden to withdraw from the 2024 race following his poor performance at last week’s debate.

Doggett — who has served in the House since 1995 — said he had hoped the debate against former President Trump would “provide some momentum” to turbocharge Biden’s poll numbers.

That, however, did not come to fruition, he said.

“Instead of reassuring voters, the President failed to effectively defend his many accomplishments and expose Trump’s many lies,” Doggett said in a statement.

“I represent the heart of a congressional district once represented by Lyndon Johnson,” Doggett added. “Under very different circumstances, he made the painful decision to withdraw. President Biden should do the same.”

I’ve never heard of Doggett and I don’t really think this will move the needle, at least not from Doggett alone. If it begins an avalanche of other Democrats calling for Biden to drop out, then it might.

But it seems to me that with the Biden’s inner circle and the DNC fulling supporting Biden staying in the race, it doesn’t seem likely anything is going to change. The only thing that Biden cares about right now is impressing his megadonors and the little speech he just gave at DC’s emergency management center didn’t impress anyone.