Former President Biden’s political allies and rivals alike sent a flood of well-wishes and tributes to the former president on Sunday following news of his cancer diagnosis, praising him as “a fighter.

When Biden, 82, was diagnosed last week, his cancer had already spread to his bones. His last prostate screening was more than a decade ago. “President Biden’s last known PSA was in 2014," a spokesperson for the former president said this week.

After Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis and Representative Gerry Connolly’s death, some in the party want more elected officials, as one Democrat put it, to seek an earlier “escape hatch from politics.”