 The only circumstances, he said, in which he would step aside would be if the Lord Almighty himself came down to ask him to do it, and certainly not if senior Democratic leaders in the Senate came and asked him to do it. But most of the wider set of advisers and Democratic strategists who have been more vocal about saying that he should step down were not terribly impressed by the performance and continuing to say that for the good of the party, he needs to step aside.