Endorses Vice President Kamala Harris
Monrovia, Liberia – The extremely tight battle for the White House this year has become even more unpredictable with the withdrawal of US President Joe Biden’s candidacy for reelection.
On Sunday, July 21, 2024, the oldest serving president in US history made his announcement. Over thirty members of Congress had publicly called for his resignation, adding to the growing pressure from his fellow Democrats.
The 81-year-old Biden announced in a post on X that he will continue to serve as commander in chief and president until the conclusion of his term in January 2025 and that he will address the country this week.
“Serving as your President has been the greatest honor of my life. Although I had intended to run for reelection, I feel it would be better for my party and the nation if I stepped down and concentrated only on carrying out my presidential duties for the balance of my term,” Biden wrote.
Vice President Kamala Harris was not mentioned in his first remarks, although he did so in a subsequent speech a short while later.
In the history of the nation, Harris,59, would become the first Black woman to lead a major party ticket.
With fewer than four months to launch a campaign, Biden, the first sitting president to forfeit his party’s candidacy for reelection since President Lyndon Johnson in March 1968, sets a precedent.
Democrats reacted negatively to Biden after he gave a shaky performance in the first presidential debate of the 2024 campaign season, stammering and finding it difficult to say simple things.
The public’s attention was diverted from Trump’s performance, in which he made a number of bogus claims, and was instead focused on concerns about Biden’s suitability for a second term due to his occasionally inability to finish coherent sentences.
Days later, he voiced new concerns in an interview, dismissing Democrats’ concerns and the growing disparity between the two parties’ ratings, and claiming he would be okay losing to Trump if he knew he would.
As President Joe Biden withdrew from the campaign, an increasing number of Democrats support US Vice President Kamala Harris to be the party’s nominee.
The 81-year-old incumbent, who has supported Harris wholeheartedly, declared he would finish out his term.
