{"id":270156,"date":"2024-07-22T12:01:51","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T11:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=270156"},"modified":"2024-07-22T06:29:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T05:29:43","slug":"us-president-joe-biden-drops-out-of-the-presidential-race-vp-kamala-harris-announces-her-candidacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/07\/us-president-joe-biden-drops-out-of-the-presidential-race-vp-kamala-harris-announces-her-candidacy\/","title":{"rendered":"US President Joe Biden Drops Out of the Presidential Race, VP Kamala Harris Announces Her Candidacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_270157\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Kamala-Harris-scaled.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-270157\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-270157\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Kamala-Harris-240x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Kamala-Harris-240x300.webp 240w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Kamala-Harris-819x1024.webp 819w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Kamala-Harris-768x960.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Kamala-Harris-1229x1536.webp 1229w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Kamala-Harris-1638x2048.webp 1638w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Kamala-Harris-scaled.webp 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-270157\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Vice President Kamala Harris<br \/>The White House<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>21 Jul 2024 <\/em>&#8211; The United States president Joe Biden has officially announced that he is out of the presidential race after several weeks of other Democrats asking him to withdraw due to his advanced age and mental gaps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President. And 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 the remainder of my term,\u201d Biden wrote in a letter posted to his X account.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RMIRvlSOYw\" >pic.twitter.com\/RMIRvlSOYw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden\/status\/1815080881981190320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >July 21, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Biden has thus yielded to pressure from his own party after his lackluster performance in the first race debate to the White House against former President and Republican candidate Donald Trump. Dozens of legislators and senators had asked him in recent days to leave the witness because of his advanced age.<\/p>\n<p>After being diagnosed with COVID-19 last week, Biden remains at his Delaware beach house, and said he would address the nation later this week to provide \u201cdetail\u201d about his decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor now, let me express my deepest gratitude to all those who have worked so hard to see me reelected. I want to thank Vice President Kamala Harris for being an extraordinary partner in all this work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kamala has rushed to announce her nomination to the US presidency endorsed by Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday I want to offer my full support and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our party this year. Democrats \u2014 it\u2019s time to come together and beat Trump. Let\u2019s do this,\u201d said Biden on an X post.<\/p>\n<p>Biden assured that picking Kamala as his VP on 2020 was the best decision he made.<\/p>\n<p>The current US president also commented that he will focus all his energies on the duties as President for the remainder of his presidential term.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"U.S.: Joe Biden withdraws from presidential race\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JMB7fi8tz-o?start=1&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telesurenglish.net\/us-president-joe-biden-drops-out-of-the-presidential-race\/\" >Go to Original &#8211; telesurenglish.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>21 Jul 2024 &#8211; After being diagnosed with COVID-19 last week, Biden remains at his Delaware beach house, and said he would address the nation later this week. Kamala has rushed to announce her nomination to the US presidency endorsed by Biden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":270157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[2197,392,2225,70],"class_list":["post-270156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anglo-america","tag-biden","tag-elections","tag-kamala-harris","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270158,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270156\/revisions\/270158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}