WASHINGTON.- After the controversy that arose from his strange performance in the recent debate, President Joe Biden decided to drop out of the race on Sunday for re-election.
Biden, who plans to continue as president until the end of his term, on January 20, 2025, he announced his resignation from the candidacy in a letter.
In the letter he did not give his immediate support to Vice President Kamala Harrisone of the most talked about options to succeed him, but he later backed her in a message on X (formerly Twitter).
Biden drops out of presidential bid
Biden’s decision comes after a increasing pressure to step aside, after the debate on June 27, when the president, 81 years oldat times lost the thread of his arguments, gave meaningless answers or failed to point out the many falsehoods Trump was telling.
“It has been the honor of my life to serve as your president. And while it was my intention to run for re-election, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country that I step aside and focus solely on fulfilling my duties as president for the remainder of my term,” he wrote in a letter published in X (formerly Twitter).
Biden endorses Kamala Harris as candidate
In a later message, asked for a vote for Vice President Kamala Harris as her replacement for the elections on November 5.
“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,” he wrote.
“My first decision as a party candidate in 2020 was to choose Kamala Harris as my vice president. And it has been the best decision that I’ve drunk”.
“Hoy I want to offer all my support and backing for Kamala to be the candidate of our party this year. Democrats: it’s time to unite and defeat Trump. Let’s do it,” he stressed.
Joe Biden gives in to pressure
According to the EFE agency, this is how Biden He gave in to pressure from his own party after his mediocre performance in the first debate against Donald Trump.
Since then, legislators and senators have demanded that he will pass the baton to the new generations of the party.
Biden, who is Isolated at his home in Delaware recovering from Covid-19explained that in the coming days, at the end of this week, he will address the nation to explain his decision.
“For now, let me express my deepest gratitude “To all those who have worked so hard to see me re-elected,” he said in the letter he released on Sunday.
Y thanked Vice President Kamala Harris for being “an extraordinary partner in all this work.”
Biden thanks the people and highlights great progress
“Let me express My most sincere thanks to the people “I am an American for the faith and trust you have placed in me,” said Biden, who noted that in the last three and a half years, great progress has been made as a nation.
“I know that none of this could have been done without you, the American people.”
“Together, We have overcome a once-in-a-century pandemic and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, we have protected and preserved our democracy and revitalized and strengthened our alliances around the world,” he stressed.
Hearts, Jill Biden’s reaction to the letter
His wife Jill Biden She posted some hearts in support of her husband, after he announced that he was dropping out of the race for re-election.
Jill Biden used her X account to hang two hearts next to the letter in which the president made his decision known.
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2024-08-01 14:45:03
