ALBANY, NY (Erie News Now)--LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR ANTONIO DELGADO IS ADDING HIS VOICE TO THE GROWING CHORUS CALLING ON PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN TO DROP OF OUT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE.  

IN THE MEANTIME, GOV. KATHY HOCHUL CONTINUES TO SUPPORT BIDEN IN HIS PUSH FOR ANOTHER PRESIDENTIAL TERM.  
 
IN A STATEMENT ON X, FORMERLY KNOWN AS TWITTER, DELGADO EXPRESSED CONCERN OVER BIDEN’S ABILITY TO WIN AGAINST DONALD TRUMP.  
 
DELGADO’S STATEMENT ALSO COMES HOURS AFTER HIS SUCCESSOR FOR NEW YORK’S 19TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT REP. PAT RYAN ALSO CALLED ON BIDEN TO DROP OUT.   
 
SOME POLITICAL EXPERTS SAid BIDEN’S SOLO PRESS CONFERENCE TONIGHT WILL BE KEY TO PROVING THE VIABILITY OF HIS PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN.  
 
“Will it be successful? Or will he have a bad performance? Because the thing that I think worries a lot of Democrats is since that horrible debate is just everything he says, the tiniest little minute things are scrutinized to the enth degree,” said Shawn Donahue, a professor of political science at SUNY Buffalo. 
 
A SPOKESPERSON FROM HOCHUL’S CAMPAIGN SAid WHILE DELGADO HAS A RIGHT TO HIS OPINION, THE GOVERNOR BELIEVES THE DEMOCRATS SHOULD COME TOGETHER IN A UNITED FRONT.  
 
THE GOVERNOR SAid Thursday SHE CONTINUES TO STAND BEHIND BIDEN, AND THAT MEETING HIM IN PERSON HAS convinced HER HE CAN DEFEAT FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP THIS NOVEMBER.