Joe Biden Withdraw From The Presidential Contest
After concluding his campaign, Biden supports Harris to be the Democratic nominee.
Following weeks of growing pressure from Democrats, US President Joe Biden withdraws from the presidential contest.
He will continue to serve for the remaining six months of his tenure, claiming that it is “in the best interest of my party and the country.”
Biden supports his Vice President Kamala Harris as the next Democratic nominee.
In addition to doing “everything in my power to… unite our nation to defeat Donald Trump,” Harris states that she plans to “earn and win” the nomination.
Not only did former presidents Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton support Harris, but they also said Democrats should “fight with everything we’ve got to elect her” when they competed against Trump in 2016.
The former president, Barack Obama, does not support Harris or any other candidate but claims that Democrats would select an “outstanding nominee.”
Election day for Americans is in four months, on November 5.
Since his poor performance in the debate against Trump last month, Biden, 81, has been the target of growing calls for his resignation.
Trudeau states that Biden is “driven by love for his country.”
Premier of Canada Justin Trudeau praised Biden as a “great man” who is “guided by his love for his country” in response to his decision to withdraw from the presidential campaign.
In a statement on X, he writes, “He is a great friend and a partner to Canadians as President.
“To President Biden and the First Lady: thank you.”
Before he announced his intention to stop his election campaign, President Biden’s aides organized campaign events for the next week upon returning to the White House.
Shortly before the letter was made public, the president told top White House and campaign officials that he was withdrawing from the 2024 race, according to a senior White House official.
He informed his colleagues that he had given it some thought during the last few days. The decision was “closely held.
Rise of Joe Biden
Joe Biden’s rise to the top of American politics took almost 50 years and was marked by tragedy and success. The fall, on the other hand, felt incredibly quick.
On July 21, the 46th President of the United States, Joseph R. Biden Jr., gave in to Democrats’ worries about his fading re-election chances and dropped out of the race against former President Donald Trump. This came weeks after a disastrous debate caused a dramatic revolt within his party.
The shocking move changes everything about the 2024 race and makes a dash to Election Day possible.
Biden wrote in a message shared on social media just before 2 p.m. on a Sunday, “It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President.” “Even though I had planned to run for re-election, I think it would be best for my party and the country for me to step down and focus on my duties as President for the rest of my term.” In a different post that came out a few minutes later, Biden backed Vice President Kamala Harris for the Democratic nod.
Dozens of elected leaders from Biden’s party had asked him to drop out since the June 27 debate against Trump raised more questions about the President’s mental health and ability to campaign and run the country. Biden stubbornly ignored those calls, angry at the protests and determined to move forward. His staff said he was all in, but suddenly, he wasn’t.
In a historic move, Biden is the first President to drop his re-election bid since Lyndon Johnson in March 1968, when he said he would not accept the Democratic Party’s nomination because of criticism of how he was handling the Vietnam War. If Democrats decide to replace Biden in a certain way, Harris or another younger Democratic leader could run against Trump for the top job. Trump is 78 years old. Even though Biden’s choice still has some support among party members, it’s not likely that a party that is ready to fire its leader will follow the President’s lead anymore.
As someone who fought his whole life for the President, it must not have been easy for him to give it up now when he was weak and things were hard. Biden didn’t want to go. Getting through hard times had become an essential part of who he was. He saw the growing worries about his age as another thing he had to overcome.
Understanding what the President was thinking about stepping down helps to look back at how he got here. Biden lost his wife and daughter in a car accident not long after being elected to the Senate in 1972. Fifteen years later, his first run for President was cut short after he used a debate point that was originally a British politician originally made the plagiarism story worsen. Biden’s close friends and family—many of whom are still close to him today—begged him to step down. Biden still feels terrible that he pays more attention to his advisors than his family, who tell him not to quit.
Biden now hates the press and people criticizing him because of what happened. He thinks that the Washington elite are against him. He thought he was up to the challenge, so giving in to the calls to end a long and successful career would be the same. It was like 1987 all over again for Biden.
But Biden was wrong when he said the Democrats’ worries were just a Beltway thing. People in America have long had questions about Biden’s age. An AP–NORC study from the summer of 2016 found that 77% of adults thought Biden was too old to be a good president for a second term. The discussion with Trump made that idea even more vital. Democrats were shocked to see Biden stutter and mess up, mispronouncing names and numbers, losing his train of thought, and not being able to counter Trump’s lies or explain his successes and plans for a second term in a way that made sense.
Why Biden Quit
Because they couldn’t get rid of him, many angry Democrats didn’t say anything. They were either too afraid to say that the President could no longer lead the ticket or weren’t sure if Harris would do better. However, in the days and weeks that followed, more and more Democratic lawmakers and fundraisers raised concerns that Biden was likely to lose in November, which could hurt all of the party’s candidates nationwide and give the House and Senate to the Republicans.
Biden insisted he would stay in the race and worked hard to get support from union leaders and the Congressional Black Caucus, two critical groups in the party. At first, it looked like Biden had put down the protests. Then, his old friend Nancy Pelosi gave the effort to get rid of Biden a new boost. “The President alone can decide if he wants to run.”
“Time is running out, so we’re all pushing him to make that choice,” the 84-year-old former House Speaker said of her 81-year-old President as if Biden hadn’t promised to stay in the race. It was an interesting pair: one eighty-year-old determined to hold on to power even though his skills were waning, and the other who had given up power voluntarily but still had the power to cut off the President of the United States campaign when he became a political liability.
Even though Biden made a lot of public events meant to show how strong he was, they didn’t help ease people’s worries. Polls showed that he was behind in states that could be decisive. Important donors started to stop giving to him or change how they were investing their money. The news was mostly about how his mental health seemed to be getting worse. Stan Greenberg, who worked as a pollster for Bill Clinton and had earlier praised Biden’s chances of re-election, asked the White House over and over again to take his current danger more seriously. Many other party leaders were also worried that the campaign was ignoring a crisis that affected the President and candidates further down the ballot across the country. States that usually vote Democratic were all of a sudden going purple.
Then, on July 13, shots were fired at a fairground in Butler, Pennsylvania. A man was trying to kill Donald Trump, which shocked the whole country.
Biden snuck into St. Edmond Catholic Church near Delaware’s Rehoboth Beach beach right as services were about to start on Saturday evening, just before Trump was shot. Soon, word got out about the tragedy. As Biden was rushed out of the building wearing a black baseball cap over his shock of white hair, he heard that his predecessor had been the object of what looked like an attempt to kill him.
Biden acted quickly and made plans to return to Washington, D.C. During the call, he asked many questions of his national security team. Soon after, he talked to Trump. By the next night, he had spoken to the whole country three times. Due to the seriousness of the situation, his campaign stopped all political activities, even though his staff knew that the fact that his opponent was facing a bullet would only fuel the MAGA movement’s passion and give Trump an edge in the race.
The shooting by Trump barely stopped the talk about Biden’s age. The Democratic leaders of both the House and the Senate, Hakeem Jeffries, and Chuck Schumer, told Biden directly that their groups were apprehensive about his campaign. Pelosi also told Biden that his unwillingness to drop put the Democrats’ chances of keeping the Senate and retaking the House at risk.
Following a campaign stop in Nevada, Biden was identified with COVID-19 and went to his beach house in Rehoboth to get better. To a smaller group of advisors, he scolded Democratic donors for trying to get him to drop out of the race. He was also angry that his accomplishments weren’t getting enough credit and that people who claimed to be his friends and partners were mistreating him. But even close friends knew he was almost out of options and was starting to seriously think about how to get out.
