step aside

But a source close to Nicoll told BBC Scotland News that she felt there was an "underlying inference" in the phone call that he wanted her to step aside.

Mr Welby had previously resisted calls to step aside over his response to the case since 2013.

“The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary.”

Pelosi told the New York Times: "The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary."

Even after the debate poured gasoline on the fire, Biden and his allies spent a month resisting calls for him to step aside, leaving Harris with just over three months to define her candidacy.