Rep. Mike Quigley is the fourth House Democrat to call on Biden to drop out of the 2024 race

Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) on Friday became the fourth Democratic member of the House of Representatives to call on President Biden to end his reelection effort.

The Illinois Democrat made a direct appeal to the 81-year-old president during an appearance on MSNBC, after clips aired from Biden’s highly anticipated interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos.

“Mr. President, your legacy is marked. We owe you a great debt of gratitude. The only thing you can do now to cement it forever and avoid total catastrophe is to step down and let someone else do it,” Quigley said during an appearance on “All In with Chris Hayes.”

The congressman argued that with Biden off the ballot, “on day one we are back in a dogfight” with former President Donald Trump.

“Suddenly, all the things we’re talking about with President Biden … we have a lot more to talk about with Trump,” Quigley said, claiming the 78-year-old likely Republican nominee “has cognitive issues.”

Reps. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) and Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) had previously called on Biden to step aside.

Earlier this week, Reuters reported that as many as 25 House Democrats are preparing to call on the president to end his campaign.

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) has also reportedly been working to arrange a meeting between the president and Democratic senators, where they would ask Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential race, according to the Washington Post.

Biden, in his interview with Stephanopoulos, could not recall with certainty whether he watched a replay of his June 27 confrontation with Trump.

“I don’t think he did it, no,” she told the “This Week” host.

Trump campaign adviser Steven Cheung mocked Biden’s response on social media.

“How the hell do you not know if you watched the debate again?” Cheung wrote on X.

Quigley said she found Biden’s response to the question “disturbing” during an appearance on CNN.

When Stephanopoulos asked him if he knew how poorly he was performing at the time, Biden launched into a rambling statement.

“The whole preparation process was nobody’s fault, it was my fault. Nobody’s fault but mine. I prepared what I would normally do, sitting down, when I went back to foreign leaders or the National Security Council to get explicit details,” the president said.

“And I realized that, halfway through, you know, everything… I was quoted in the New York Times that I was ten points off before the debate, nine now or whatever. The fact is, what I saw, is that he lied 28 times as well. I couldn’t… I mean, the way the debate went, it wasn’t my fault, it wasn’t anybody else’s fault, it wasn’t anybody else’s fault,” he added.

“This is a pretty incoherent response,” pollster Nate Silver wrote in X.

“I’m already there,” the FiveThirtyEight founder added, indicating that based on Biden’s interview with ABC News, he now believes the president should drop out of the presidential race.

“It’s clear that something is not right here,” Silver said.

ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl reported after the full interview aired that for some Democrats, Biden’s meeting raised “new concerns.”

Particularly troubling, Karl said, was Biden’s response when asked how he would feel if Trump defeated him in November.

“I’ll feel like I gave it my all and did the best job I know I could do; that’s what it’s all about,” the president said.

Karl reported that a prominent Biden ally responded, “Wow,” when he heard the president’s response.

“With all due respect, the only thing that really matters is avoiding a second Trump presidency,” Quigley said in reaction to Biden’s bizarre response.

The congressman also said it seemed as if the president was in “complete denial” about polls indicating he was at risk of losing the election to Trump.

David Axelrod, a political consultant and former adviser to President Barack Obama, said he did not think Biden did enough in the interview to change the minds of Democratic voters who are worried about his chances in November.

“Some things struck me as sad,” Axelrod said during an appearance on CNN.

“He seems unable to grasp the fact that people have these questions about him,” the former Obama adviser said, referring to questions about Biden’s cognitive abilities.

Responding to Biden’s insistence that he undergoes “a full neurological screening every day” because of his duties as commander in chief, Axelrod noted that “75% of the American people say they fail” those daily tests, a reference to polls in which large majorities of voters say Biden is unfit for office.

Axelrod argued that Biden is “hiding from reality” by refusing to heed warnings from Democratic lawmakers, strategists and pollsters that say Trump is pulling away in the race, “and the reality is grim right now.”

Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer described the interview as “the worst of all worlds” for Democrats.

“Biden made no serious mistakes. He did nothing to force himself out of the race. But he looks old, weak, indecisive, and he is losing to Trump,” the former Bush White House official wrote in X.

“Biden will dig in and stay. The Democrats are stuck,” he added.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) compared the interview to a “therapy session” and argued that Stephanopoulos was “begging President Biden to drop out of the race.”

“What we saw tonight was chilling,” Graham tweeted.

“If you think President Biden is as fit now as he was when he took office, as he claims, you need a cognitive test.”