WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race for the White House on Sunday, ending his bid for reelection following a disastrous debate with Donald Trump that raised doubts about his fitness for office just four months before the election.
The decision comes after escalating pressure from Biden’s Democratic allies to step aside following the June 27 debate, in which the 81-year-old president trailed off, often gave nonsensical answers and failed to call out the former president’s many falsehoods. Biden endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to take on Trump, and encouraged his party to united behind her.
I liked him and sad to see him go. His term was the best I have encountered in life (lets be clear this is in comparison to other presidential terms, not ideals) and I think a large part of that was experience. Especially as vp of obama. I will vote harris and hope she bring the experience she got as vp and continues the administrations work.
I just want to say, thank goodness for Beehaw. Out in the lemmyverse, the most upvoted comments are full of vitriol and emotion, and very little nuanced thought. At least here, I don’t have to suspect half the population of being bots.
Personally, I’m glad to see it. Biden’s obvious cognitive decline has been very public for the last several years, and as we all saw with the debate, was impossible to hide when his appearance couldn’t be stage managed.
He endorses Kamala. It would be an interesting turn of events if she were to be elected, but looking at her tough-on-crime record against nonviolent drug users and truants, I get the sense it would draw more comparisons to Kyrsten Sinema than Eleanor Roosevelt.
It’ll be interesting to see where things go from here.
