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He supports his vice president, Kamala Harris, in the US presidential election on November 5, 2024.
Joe Biden, the 46th president of the United States, is withdrawing from the presidential candidacy. The politician himself will make an announcement about this on Sunday, adding that he made this decision in the interest of his country and the Democratic Party, and that he supports his vice president, Kamala Harris, in the American presidential election on November 5, 2024.
The politician was called on by several prominent figures of the Democratic Party to step down after his performance against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in the first presidential debate. On Sunday, he likely wrote the resignation letter at his home in Rehoboth, Delaware, promising, among other things, that he would give a televised address later next week detailing the reasons for his decision. The American president recently contracted the Covid-19 infection and is showing mild symptoms.
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There are those who would not wait until the day of the presidential election, after the announcement of the withdrawal, at least the Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, immediately began to demand that Joe Biden resign. “If he is not fit to run again in the presidential election, he is not fit to be president either,” he quoted az NBC News Mike Johnson’s arguments. According to the politician, by withdrawing, Joe Biden simply invalidated the votes of those Democratic voters, thanks to whom the Democratic Party re-nominated him for the presidency.
In the June 27 presidential candidate debate, according to CNN’s survey, 67 percent of viewers saw Donald Trump as the winner even though. that the ex-Republican president lied several times, typically gave answers to questions that were not relevant to the topic, and that he had no merits against Joe Biden in economic matters. The incumbent president simply gave the impression of an overly old man: his voice sometimes faltered, he sometimes lost the thread of his thoughts, and it was difficult for him to express his point of view clearly. Although, despite the calls, he initially insisted that he would remain the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate in the November 5, 2024 presidential election – first he declared that only God, then he said that his doctors could talk him out of running – in the end, the most in the Democratic Party he could decide on internal pressure.
As for God, it’s been rumored from the beginning that if anyone could convince him to back down, it would be his wife, Jill Biden. We’re just guessing, but it can be backed up by the fact that it’s leaking informations according to him, his decision to go solo was made in the last 48 hours, that is, since Joe Biden traveled to Rehoboth to recover. His announcement was not preceded by a personal meeting with either his campaign staff or White House officials. It is not clear exactly what time, but Joe Biden spoke on the phone with Kamala Harris, CNN later learned.
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After Joe Biden’s announcement to CNN managed to get Donald Trump to speak on the phone, who said that the worst president in the history of the United States had stepped down. The Republican presidential candidate, who is preparing to re-run, also previously said that it would be easier to defeat Kamala Harris than Joe Biden.
It is understood that Kamala Harris will not appear in public until Joe Biden’s promised televised address next week. The fact that Joe Biden supports him does not automatically mean that he is also the Democratic presidential candidate, because the presidential candidacy also requires the approval of the Democratic delegates. The vice president announced this on August 19-22, 2024. you can win it at the Democratic Party Convention to be held in Chicago between If the Democratic Party actually votes for her, Kamala Harris will become the second woman in US history to be nominated for president, after Hillary Clinton. The Clinton couple – former Secretary of State and First Lady Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton – assured Kamala Harris of their support in a statement on Sunday.
According to the rules of the US Federal Election Commission (FEC), whoever becomes the Democratic presidential candidate can receive the money that has been collected so far for the re-election of Joe Biden. by the end of June, the amount had reached around 240 million, including the 95 and a half million dollars that was in the account of the Biden campaign.
Joe Biden was inaugurated on January 21, 2021, making him the oldest president in United States history at the age of 78 years and 61 days. He defeated Donald Trump, who now challenged him again to win the White House. Donald Trump was 70 years and 220 days old when he was inaugurated in 2016, which is good enough for second place on the list. Age was no barrier to their 2020 vote-getting for any candidate in a US presidential election. Joe Biden won with 81,268,924 votes, Donald Trump received 74,216,154, far behind them is Barack Obama, who was elected US president in 2008 with 69,498,516 votes. Joe Biden was his vice president for 8 years.
Not since 1968 in the history of the United States has an incumbent president withdrawn from a presidential election. Then Lyndon B. Johnson – the vice president and successor of John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1963 – announced that he would not run again, but he spoke before the contest months earlier than Joe Biden does now.
Source: nepszava.hu
