The president of the United States, Joe Biden, who is at his home in Delaware after having contracted COVID-19, announced on Friday that next week he will resume his campaign events for the November elections.

The campaign made the announcement in a statement in which it lashes out against the “dark vision” that former President Donald Trump (2017-2021) outlined during his speech of acceptance of the Republican nomination on Thursday night at the party convention in Milwaukee.

“I’m looking forward to returning to the electoral campaign next week,” Biden said in the statement, which comes at a time when the pressure has redoubled to end his candidacy, with more members of Congress publicly asking him this Friday to “pass the witness” to someone younger.

In that statement, Biden makes no mention of the revolt within his party and only raises the elections as a dilemma between his vision for the United States and the one outlined by Trump during his speech. “The challenge is great and the choice is clear. Together, we will win,” he says.

In most of the statement he criticizes Trump, saying that his 90-minute speech “focused on his own grievances” and did not put on the table any plan to “unite” the country or to “improve the lives of workers.”

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“Donald Trump’s dark vision for the future is not who we are as Americans. Together, as a party and as a country, we can and will defeat him at the polls,” he says.

Trump gave a speech of an hour and a half on Thursday in which he began with a gloomy tone, alluding to the attempted murder he suffered only a few days ago, and in which he called for unity, although he also gave space to conspiracy theories about electoral fraud in the 2020 elections and returned to his harsh rhetoric against migrants.

President Joe Biden has shown a “significant” improvement since Thursday although he continues to have symptoms from COVID-19, especially cough, as reported this Friday by the president’s doctor, Kevin O’Connor, in a letter distributed by the White House.

“His dry cough and hoarseness continue to be his main symptoms, but they have improved significantly since yesterday,” the doctor said in a statement.

Biden is in isolation in his Delaware home, after last Wednesday he tested positive for COVID-19 while campaigning in Nevada, a key state for the November elections.

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About thirty members of Congress have publicly asked Biden to withdraw from the presidential race and several publicly asked him this Friday to “pass the witness,” in a drip that increases the pressure on the president.

Biden has seen in recent hours how his support weakens among key figures of the party. As reported on Thursday by The Washington Post, Former President Barack Obama (2009-2017) has told his close circle that Biden should “seriously reconsider” the future of his candidacy.

The call for him to withdraw came after the debate on June 27 against Trump, in which Biden, who at 81 years old is the oldest president in the history of the United States, projected an aged image and had difficulty concluding some sentences.