Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who publicly proclaimed after President Biden’s disastrous debate, “I’m with Joe,” has now revealed to The New York Times that he pointedly urged Biden to drop out of the race during a private meeting on July 13.

“If you run and you lose to Trump, and we lose the Senate, and we don’t get back the House, that 50 years of amazing, beautiful work goes out the window,” Schumer told Biden bluntly, according to The Times, which reported the “tense” encounter from the New York lawmaker’s point of view.

“But worse — you go down in American history as one of the darkest figures,” Schumer admonished Biden.

“If I were you,” Schumer said, “I wouldn’t run, and I’m urging you not to run.”

The Times described Schumer as “tired and tense” after not sleeping the night before and making a four-hour drive from Brooklyn to Biden’s beach house in Rehoboth, Del.

He had reviewed note cards to rehearse what he was going to say to the president, whose poll numbers plummeted after his weak debate performance against Donald Trump in Atlanta on June 27.

Schumer would tell Biden that if there were a secret ballot among Democratic senators, no more than five would say he should say in the race. And Schumer would tell Biden that his own pollster gave him only a 5 percent chance of beating Trump.

ABC News’s Jonathan Karl

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