Joe Biden announced Sunday that he is dropping out of the 2024 presidential race after saying as recently as Friday that he intended to stay in.
“While it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as president for my term,” Biden said in a statement posted on social media.
While his statement he signed didn’t endorse his running mate Kamala Harris for the Democrat nomination, a subsequent post on X made clear that she is his choice.
“My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President,” the post reads. “And it’s been the best decision I’ve made. Today I want to offer my full support and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our party this year. Democrats — it’s time to come together and beat Trump. Let’s do this.”
Former President Donald Trump told CNN on Sunday that Biden is the “worst president by far in the history of our country,” but in his opinion, Harris would be easier to beat.
Since Biden’s disastrous debate performance on June 27, power brokers in the Democrat party had become increasingly vocal in their calls for Biden to step down, realizing that his cognitive decline could no longer be hidden from the public. A coordinated Democrat/media pressure campaign reached a fever pitch last week, as more and more prominent Democrats called on Biden to step aside. On Thursday, longtime Washington DC journalist Mark Halperin reported that Biden would make an announcement as early as this weekend.
Biden, as recently as Friday, however, was still saying in official statements that he intended to stay in the race.
A recent poll showed that a majority of liberal and black voters wanted Biden to continue running as the Democrat nominee for U.S. President.
But despite receiving tens of millions of votes in the Democrat primaries, Biden was pressured to bow out by the real powerbrokers in the party of “Democracy.”
“We are witnessing a third world-style coup engineered by oligarchs as we speak, and it isn’t going to be pretty,” commented Dhillon Law founder and RNC member Harmeet Dhillon. Stay calm, folks. It’s about to get crazy.
Now that he has dropped out, many Republicans are calling for Biden to resign from his office.
“If you can’t run a mere political campaign, you can’t be President,” Senator Josh Hawley wrote on X.
In a statement posted on Truth Social, Trump said: “Crooked Joe Biden was not fit to run for President, and is certainly not fit to serve – And never was! He only attained the position of President by lies, Fake News, and not leaving his Basement. All those around him, including his Doctor and the Media, knew that he wasn’t capable of being President, and he wasn’t – And now, look what he’s done to our Country, with millions of people coming across our Border, totally unchecked and unvetted, many from prisons, mental institutions, and record numbers of terrorists. We will suffer greatly because of his presidency, but we will remedy the damage he has done very quickly. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
Biden said in his statement Sunday that he will address the nation on his decision to leave the race later this week.