Top Democrats are reportedly reaching out to rising stars in the party and are telling them that President Joe Biden is not running for re-election.

CNN reported that the “top Democrats and donors” have reached out to “possible replacements” for Biden and had conversations about them getting in the race as Biden struggles in the White House.

Numerous polls have shown Biden struggles against the top two Republican Party presidential candidates—former President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

Those who are placing the calls to the prospective Democrat candidates are telling them that despite what 80-year-old Biden has said, and despite launching his campaign, he actually will not run for president.

Biden’s team pushed back, saying that he was absolutely running and that he was taking campaign preparations seriously.

The Democrat who has seemingly tried to raise their national profile in recent months as Biden stumbles, both literally and figuratively, is California Governor Gavin Newsom.

Newsom, 55, has repeatedly taken shots at DeSantis, was recently featured in a Fox News special interview with host Sean Hannity, has spent millions left over from his 2022 gubernatorial campaign to boost fellow Democrats for 2024, and will visit red states in an attempt to help boost turnout for Democrats.

Those who CNN spoke with, who also included numerous senior Democrat advisers, said that they are concerned about the slow pace of Biden’s campaign.

What Democrats who are still behind Biden are banking on is that voters will be motivated more by their hatred of Trump than their love of Biden, according to well-known Democrat strategist Lis Smith. “A lot of enthusiasm will come for voting against Republicans,” she said.

Exit polling from Morning Consult, an organization that the Trump campaign regularly touts, found that in the 2020 presidential election, of those who voted Biden, 44% did so as a vote against Trump. Of those who voted Trump, only 22% did so as a vote against Biden.

President Joe Biden issued an order on Thursday that will allow the Pentagon to call up to 3,000 military reservists for deployment to Europe.

The order released by the White House says the president determined it is “necessary to augment” U.S. forces — which The Washington Post reported as about 80,000 troops — who are on a mission to deter further Russian aggression just days after the war in Ukraine surpassed the 500-day mark.

Up to 450 of the troops authorized for activation under Biden’s order can be pulled from the Individual Ready Reserve (IRR) — which includes service members who are nearing the end of their enlistment contracts and are no longer required to attend regular drills and training.

“These authorities will enable the department to better support and sustain its enhanced presence and level of operations,” said Lt. Gen. Douglas Sims, the director for operations on the Joint Staff.

He also said the move “reaffirms the unwavering support and commitment to the defense of NATO’s eastern flank in wake of Russia’s illegal and unprovoked war on Ukraine.”

The Biden administration previously ordered extra service members to Eastern Europe just before Russia invaded Ukraine in February of last year.

Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder, a Pentagon spokesman, said Biden’s new order unlocks the ability to call on National Guard or reserve forces to support Operation Atlantic Resolve and have them “be entitled to the same kind of benefits as their active duty counterparts.”

Biden insisted at the outset of the conflict that he would not send troops into Ukraine to fight Russian forces, but the United States has sent tens of billions of dollars in aid to help with the defensive effort.

The president’s order comes at the end of a NATO summit in Vilnius, where Biden said the U.S. and its allies are “doing everything we can” to support Ukraine. However, Biden told CNN that the war in Ukraine needs to end before Ukraine could be brought into the alliance.

The U.S. most recently sent cluster bombs to Ukraine, which the Pentagon said on Thursday had just arrived in the country. Biden said he chose to give Ukraine these munitions, which are banned by more than 100 countries over concerns about the danger they pose to civilians, because the defenders are running out of ammunition.

“The main thing is they either have the weapons to stop the Russians now from their — keeping them from stopping the Ukrainian offensive through these areas, or they don’t. And I think they needed them,” Biden told CNN.