US President Biden withdrew from the election race

US President Joe Biden has announced on Sunday that he is withdrawing from the race for the presidential election to be held in November this year.

“Serving you as president has been the greatest honor of my life,” Biden, an 81-year-old Democrat, said in a letter posted on X while recovering from Covid at his beach house in Delaware.

“Although it has been my intention to run for re-election, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country that I step down and fulfill my responsibilities as president for the remainder of my term,” he said. Focus.

Biden said he would speak to the nation in more detail about his decision later this week.

The Democratic Party is now in disarray and needs to find a new candidate for the November election, with Vice President Kamala Harris as the frontrunner.

Biden’s initial statement did not include an endorsement of Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee, but he expressed his support for Kamala minutes later.

Kamala, 59, will become the first black woman in the country’s history to contest the presidential election on a major party ticket. However, it is not clear whether other senior Democrats will challenge Kamala for the nomination.

Biden has been under pressure for weeks to step down, starting with a disastrous TV debate that sparked concerns about his health.

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The surprise move makes Biden the first president in US history to withdraw so late in the race, and the first president to step down due to concerns about his mental state and health.

Biden had been resisting calls to step down for three weeks after a poor performance in the June 27 TV debate.

He said at one point that only God could convince them to back down.

To show that he was ready for the election, he gave several interviews, but in his speech he referred to Kamala Harris as the ‘Vice President’. TrumpMade more mistakes including saying.

Voices from within his own party calling for his departure began with donor and actor George Clooney and ended with former President Barack Obama.

Biden’s decision to step down also ends a tense and chaotic period in the US election.