2024-07-22 03:08:26
A few days ago, President Joe Biden said he would resign his candidacy only “if God came down from heaven and asked him to.” Well, something like that has to happen because this Sunday, he resigned from the race for his re-election in the presidential election. November in the United States, and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to be the new candidate of the Democratic Party, after weeks of speculation about the President’s physical strength and mental strength.
In fact: Joe Biden gave up his re-election bid
The 81-year-old Democrat therefore joins a very limited group of outgoing American presidents who have thrown in the towel in their bid to win a second term. But he was the first to do so at this point in the campaign. And he was the only one who had to resign due to doubts about his mental acuity, following a disastrous debate with his Republican rival Donald Trump.
“I believe that the best thing for my party and for the country is for me to retire and focus only on fulfilling my duties as president for the rest of my time.” Biden said in a letter on social network X while recovering from covid at his beach home in Delaware.
The announcement, although it is expected despite how his campaign team and he himself insists to say the opposite, changed a campaign that has experienced many comings and goings, and the assassination attempt against Donald Trump on July 13. .
Biden plans to address the nation “this week with more details” about his decision. The president announced his “full support” as his party’s nominee for Kamala Harris, the first female, African-American and South Asian vice president in United States history. Harris praised Biden’s “selflessness and patriotism” and said he hoped to “win the nomination” of the party.
“Beat Trump”
“I will do everything in my power to unite the Democratic Party and unite our country to defeat Donald Trump,” he wrote in a statement. Republican candidate Donald Trump, 78, and his party took the opportunity to criticize both.
“Corrupt Joe Biden is not fit to run for President, and he certainly is not fit to run, and he never will!” Trump posted on his authentic Social network. “Harris would be even worse for the people of our country than Joe Biden,” his campaign team added. Republican President Mike Johnson went ahead and called on Biden to resign “immediately.”
Among Democrats, praise is growing for Biden, who they describe as a “patriot.” Now the Democratic Party will have to find a replacement, when there are a few days left before the conference scheduled in Chicago (north) that starts on August 19.
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Harris was a natural choice, but not an exercise. The last word goes to the party representatives: 3,900 people with very different profiles and for the most part completely unknown to the general public.
Former US President Barack Obama praised Biden’s decision and called it “patriotic.” but he admits that the group has gone into uncertainty.
“We will be navigating in an unorganized area in the coming days. But I have incredible confidence that our party leaders will be able to create a process from which a challenging candidate will emerge,” he added in a statement.
To understand the extent of this truth, EL COLOMBIANO contacted Professor Camilo González of the Department of International Relations of the Universidad del Rosario, who thinks that this “is a long-awaited decision by the Democrats after the new meltdowns and elections. “It is an opportunity to renew support for the anti-Trump candidate who also attracts liberals with an attractive candidate than Biden.”
González also believes that the upcoming scenario is complex for the Democrats “because the convention is close and the support of the representatives who support Biden must be decided. Here it is a decision between Harris or one of the Democratic governors. The experience will measure but also the approval level of the new candidates who will have to face a Trump, who is very strong after the controversy and after the assassination attempt. “
Out of favor
It was Joe Biden’s disastrous performance during his June 27 debate with Trump that predated the events. That day, from the first second of the speech war that he himself called, tens of millions of television viewers saw a hesitant, confused Biden, an image that made the Democrats uneasy and worried.
He has a cold and a constant cough. His voice was hoarse, he struggled when speaking and left his sentences unfinished. A painful scene that reveals doubts about your health, which those close to you have tried hard to kill. Once it’s over, the question is inevitable: who will be the first to ask you to pass the baton? The tension was contagious. Some Democratic Congressmen questioned him publicly. As the day passed, the members of the group joined together.
One after another, frightened by the polls that showed him as a loser and fearing a big victory for the Republican Trump, they turned their backs on him.
First in private, recommending that you also look at your candidate. Images of Joe Biden testing positive for covid-19, struggling down the gangplank of his plane, only increased his party’s nervousness. Meanwhile Trump, who miraculously survived an assassination attempt, appears to be enjoying a state of grace, with legal victories and a clean slate at the Republican National Convention.
Kamala, no competition?
The governor of California, Democrat Gavin Newsom, This Sunday he endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to replace Biden as his party’s candidate in the November presidential elections, which eliminated a possible major candidate.
“With our democracy at stake and our future at stake, there is no one better than Vice President of the United States @KamalaHarris to challenge Donald Trump’s dark vision and lead our nation in a healthy direction,” Newsom wrote on the network. society X .
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