Governor Janet Mills said she had a “candid and constructive conversation” with President Joe Biden and other Democratic governors on Wednesday.

In a statement to the US broadcast Total Coverage from Maine late Wednesday evening, Mills said she supported the president as “an outstanding leader of our country.”

“I also told the President that last week's debate was difficult to watch, that some Maine people have since expressed to me their concerns about his campaign, including whether he could win, and that it would be good for him to reassure Maine voters as he has reassured us,” Mills wrote.

“The president has made it clear to me and the other governors that he is committed to winning and that he will make his case to the American people – and I believe him.”

I look forward to the President bringing to the American people in the months ahead, and especially in the days ahead, the same warmth, determination and energy that he brought to our conversation tonight – qualities that I have come to know well over the years I have spent with him.

I stand behind President Biden and his accomplishments for the people of Maine, and I stand behind the chaos and incompetence that Donald Trump would bring upon the American people.”

Governors Gavin Newsom of California and Kathy Hochul of New York attended the White House meeting virtually, while others, like Mills, joined the president virtually.

The meeting also comes as a second Democratic congressman has called on Biden to step down as the Democratic candidate for the 2024 election.

After Texas Rep. Lloyd Doggett said earlier this week that Biden should resign, Rep. Raúl Grijalva of Arizona told the New York Times that he would support the party's nominee no matter who it was, but now was the opportunity to “look elsewhere.”