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US Presidential Election: US President Joe Biden announced on Sunday that he will not contest the upcoming presidential election. Along with this, he has put forward the name of Vice President Kamala Harris for the presidential candidacy from the Democratic Party. Biden has recommended the name of Kamala Harris of Indian-African origin at a time when he was facing pressure from many leaders of the Democratic Party after his poor performance in the debate with his Republican rival and former President of the country Donald Trump in late June. Many Democrats were pressuring Biden to withdraw from the presidential race for the past few weeks.
Biden said in a post on the social media platform ‘X’ yesterday, “Today I want to give my full support and cooperation to make Kamala Harris our party’s candidate this year. The time has come for the Democratic Party to unite and defeat Trump.” On the other hand, just minutes after Biden’s announcement of dropping out of the presidential race, Trump, in a conversation with ‘CNN’, called Joe Biden the “worst president in the history of America”.
What before announcing withdrawal from the elections?
According to the Washington Post report, on Sunday, Joe Biden first told Vice President Kamala Harris about withdrawing from the presidential election. After this, Joe Biden held one-on-one meetings with White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients and his campaign chief Jen O’Malley Dillon. After this, Zients called a meeting of Joe Biden’s campaign staff and White House staff at 1:45 pm, so that the US President could inform them about his decision. The Chief of Staff made a formal announcement about this in front of the entire White House staff at around 2:30 pm on Sunday.
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The report said Biden made the decision after multiple meetings this weekend with White House adviser Steve Ricchetti, senior campaign adviser Mike Donilon, deputy chief of staff Anne Tomasini and senior first lady adviser Anthony Bernal at the president’s vacation home.
Why did Joe Biden become Ranchod Das?
After Biden’s defeat in the open debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden on June 27, there was a growing demand within his party for him to withdraw from the US presidential race, while the US President blamed jet lag and international travel for his performance. According to Reuters, last week, the voices opposing Biden’s campaign started growing within his own party. 36 Democrat MPs had publicly called on Joe Biden to withdraw from the presidential election. These people had said that Biden’s mental state is no longer fit to contest the next election.
Biden makes a big announcement, will not contest the presidential election, puts forward Kamala Harris’ name
Not only this, the ruling Democrats expressed dissatisfaction over Biden’s re-election and said that they fear that if Biden is re-elected, there is a possibility that he may lose control not only over the White House but also over the Parliament. Sources told news agency Reuters that Biden changed his mind at the last moment as he had no intention of dropping out of the race till Saturday night. The US President announced this on Sunday afternoon after several meetings with his top advisors.
