2024 election updates: Manchin the latest to call on Biden to end reelection bid

The Biden campaign held an all-staff call Friday afternoon to boost morale, sources familiar told ABC News.

The call was held with campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon and former Biden Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, sources said

"When you give me polls, I'm going to give you direct voter contact,” O’Malley Dillon said, according to a source.

"The people that the president is hearing from ... are saying, 'Stay in this race and keep going and keep fighting, and we need you.' Those voices will never be as loud as the people on TV, but remember that the people in our country are not watching cable news," she added.

The call was presentation-style on Zoom and questions were not taken, according to sources.

-ABC News' Selina Wang and MaryAlice Parks

Freshman Rep. Morgan McGarvey of Kentucky became the 35th congressional Democrat to call on Biden to end his campaign Friday.

McGarvey posted a statement on X stating there "was no joy in the recognition that [Biden] should not be our nominee in November.

"President Biden is a good man who cares deeply about the American people. I trust he will do what's best for the nation," the congressman added.

-ABC News' Lauren Peller

Ohio Democratic Rep. Greg Landsman released a statement Friday joining the growing calls from House Democrats to Biden to step aside.

Landsman said that he spent "weeks of consideration and hundreds of conversations with constituents," before coming to his conclusion.

"It is time for President Biden to step aside and allow us to nominate a new leader who can reliably and consistently make the case against Donald Trump and make the case for the future of America," he said.

Not too long after Landsman released his statement, Rep. Zo Lofgren of California said Biden needed to step aside.

Lofgren, a longtime ally of former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, said in a letter to Biden that he provided the president with data "indicating that you in all likelihood will lose the race for President."

"Simply put, your candidacy is on a trajectory to lose the White House and potentially impact crucial House and Senate races down ballot," she said.

-ABC News' Lauren Peller

Biden released a statement Friday indicating that he is not ending his campaign anytime soon.

"I look forward to getting back on the campaign trail next week to continue exposing the threat of Donald Trump’s Project 2025 agenda while making the case for my own record and the vision that I have for America: one where we save our democracy, protect our rights and freedoms, and create opportunity for everyone," the president said.

Biden, who is self-isolating after contracting COVID-19, also criticized Trump's Thursday night keynote speech at the RNC, saying the former president "focused on his own grievances, with no plan to unite us and no plan to make life better for working people."

“Last night the American people saw the same Donald Trump they rejected four years ago," he said.

-ABC News' Fritz Farrow