2024-07-21 18:57:28
Joe Biden has announced that he will not run for President of the United States. He did this through an official letter on his profile on the X social network. The current US president says he will provide more details in a statement next week. He announced that he is nominating his current vice president, Kamala Harris, as the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate. If she wins the race, she will be the first black woman president in the history of the United States.
“It has been my greatest honor to be your president. And while I intended to run for re-election, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country that I step down and focus solely on fulfilling my duties as president for the remainder of my term,” 81 wrote. -the annual US president.
He thanked Kamala Harris and the citizens of the United States for their vote of confidence in him.
“I believe what I’ve always believed – there’s nothing America can’t accomplish when we do it together. We just have to remember that we’re the United States of America,” he added.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) July 21, 2024
He later released another message on his X social network profile. It reads:
My fellow Democrats, I have decided not to accept the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as President for the remainder of my term. My first decision as the party’s candidate in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my vice president. And it was the best decision I ever made. Today I want to offer my full support and endorsement for Kamala as our party’s candidate this year. Democrats, it’s time to unite and defeat Trump. Lets do it.
My fellow Democrats, I have decided not to accept the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as President for the remainder of my term. My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the best… pic.twitter.com/x8DnvuImJV
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) July 21, 2024
US President Joe Biden ended his re-election campaign today after his fellow Democrats lost faith in his mental acuity and ability to defeat Donald Trump, leaving the presidential race in uncharted territory.
His wife, Jill Biden, reposted his letter on her Instagram story, accompanied by a pink heart emoji.
Biden’s withdrawal from the presidential race comes after months of speculation about Biden’s age and fitness to lead the United States for another four years – amid a series of high-profile gaffes and a disastrous debate performance. He insisted he was fit for the job. Pressure on Biden to drop the nomination for a second term has intensified in recent months after he was decisively defeated by Donald Trump in a live televised debate.
During the election campaign, he tested positive for the coronavirus.
Biden previously indicated that only “God Almighty” could make him step down, but then said he would consider stepping down if he had health problems.
For the first time in decades, a US president is dropping out of the re-election campaign, bringing back memories of President Lyndon Johnson’s decision not to run for a second full term in 1968, CNN writes.
The assassination attempt on Donald Trump at a campaign rally on July 13 briefly stemmed the flow of congressional Democrats calling for Biden to step down and distracted the country from his waning presidential campaign.
Joseph Robinette (Joe) Biden Jr is an American politician from the Democratic Party, the 46th and current President of the United States of America. He was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The son of Catholics of Irish descent.
He was the vice president of the country under President Barack Obama for 2 terms from 2009 to 2017. Before that, he was a senator from the state of Delaware for 36 years from 1973. Biden’s wife and the first lady of the United States is the teacher Jill Biden.