As he recovers from Covid, the president has grown resentful toward Democratic congressional leaders and former President Barack Obama.

Sick with Covid and abandoned by allies, President Biden has been fuming at his Delaware beach house, increasingly resentful about what he sees as an orchestrated campaign to drive him out of the race and bitter toward some of those he once considered close, including his onetime running mate Barack Obama.

Mr. Biden has been around politics long enough to assume that the leaks appearing in the media in recent days are being coordinated to raise the pressure on him to step aside, according to people close to him. He considers Representative Nancy Pelosi, the former House speaker, the main instigator, but is irritated at Mr. Obama as well, seeing him as a puppet master behind the scenes.

But several people close to Mr. Biden, who insisted on anonymity to discuss internal matters, described an under-the-weather president coughing and hacking more than a hundred miles from the corridors of power as his presidency meets its most perilous moment.

He has watched with rising exasperation as a succession of news stories appeared, one after the other, reporting that Mr. Schumer, Ms. Pelosi, Mr. Obama and Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the House Democratic leader, all had warned of a devastating defeat for the party in November.

And he certainly noticed that Mr. Obama has not done anything to help him in recent days even as his own former aides publicly have led the way in calling on Mr. Biden to withdraw in what was interpreted, rightly or wrongly, as a message from the former president's camp. The unseen but clearly felt presence of Mr. Obama in particular has brought a Shakespearean quality to the drama now playing out, given their eight-year partnership.

Fuccck

Let's hope Biden does the greatest comeback in Anime

Comes out and says:

Went through friends, some of them I put on, but they just left

They said they was ridin' to the death, but where the frick are they now?

Now that I need them, I don't see none of them

All I see is Trump, frick all you fair-weather friends, all I need is him

Frickin' backstabbers, when the chips were down you just laughed at us

Now you 'bout to feel the frickin' wrath of Aftermath, cute twinks

You gon' see us in our lab jackets and ask us where the frick we been?