{"id":12445,"date":"2024-07-21T22:14:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T22:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandaupdatenews.com\/?p=12445"},"modified":"2024-07-21T22:14:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T22:14:39","slug":"joseph-r-biden-the-46th-president-of-the-united-states-bows-down-to-internal-pressure-as-dems-fumble-to-find-a-candidate-for-their-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/joseph-r-biden-the-46th-president-of-the-united-states-bows-down-to-internal-pressure-as-dems-fumble-to-find-a-candidate-for-their-ticket\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph R. Biden, the 46th president of the United States Bows Down To Internal Pressure As Dems Fumble To Find A Candidate For Their Ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Biden will not seek reelection; endorses His Depuy Harris<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Joe Biden<\/a> ended his reelection bid and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris<\/a> to succeed him on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President,\u201d Biden wrote in a letter posted<\/a> to his official account on X. \u201cAnd 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<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden said he will speak to the nation later this week in more detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a follow-up post, Biden praised Harris and urged Democrats to unite behind her. \u201cMy very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President,\u201d Biden wrote<\/a>. \u201cAnd it\u2019s been the best decision I\u2019ve made. Today I want to offer my full support and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our party this year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harris thanked Biden for his service and said he was \u201cputting the American people and our country above everything else\u201d in a statement later Sunday. \u201cI am honored to have the President\u2019s endorsement and my intention is to earn and win this nomination,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WASHINGTON, DC \u2010 July 1, 2024:\r\rUS President Joe Biden enters to deliver remarks regarding the SCOTUS decision in the Cross Hall of the White House on Monday July 1, 2024.\r(Photo by Demetrius Freeman\/The Washington Post)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Many prominent Democrats, including former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, quickly came out in support of Harris, although some who released statements reacting to Biden\u2019s decision did not mention the vice president, including former President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have extraordinary confidence that the leaders of our party will be able to create a process from which an outstanding nominee emerges,\u201d Obama said in a statement that kept the focus on Biden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An adviser said Obama is taking the same approach as he did in the 2020 Democratic primary, watching closely with the intent of being able to help unify the party when a nominee is chosen \u2013 whether it is Harris or someone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Others explicitly called for an open process to determine who should replace Biden at the top of the ticket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harris\u2019 ascension to the top of the ticket isn\u2019t a certainty .The nominee will now be determined by the delegates to the Democratic National Convention. While Biden won an overwhelming majority of the delegates during the primary process earlier this year, they are now free to choose a candidate of their choice and he cannot simply transfer them to Harris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden\u2019s departure capped off weeks of concern about the 81-year-old president\u2019s stamina and mental capabilities and skepticism of his ability to effectively campaign against former President Donald Trump and govern the country for another four years. While Biden said he is committed to serving out the remainder of his term, his decision sparked immediate calls from Republicans for him to step down as president. Trump said Biden \u201cis not fit to serve\u201d in a post on Truth Social.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a phone call with media after Biden\u2019s announcement, Trump said Biden would go down \u201cas the single worst president by far in the history of our country\u201d and said he thought Harris would be easier to defeat than Biden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other leading Republicans, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, called on Biden to \u201cresign the office immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf Joe Biden is not fit to run for President, he is not fit to serve as President,\u201d Johnson said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s the first time a one-term US president has dropped out of a reelection run in decades and recalls President Lyndon Johnson\u2019s decision not to seek a second full term in 1968 \u2013 though Biden\u2019s decision comes months later in the campaign than Johnson\u2019s. It\u2019s also the latest shocking development in a highly charged political campaign that has included an attempt on Trump\u2019s life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But not even the attempted assassination on Trump and its tumultuous effect on the race would pause the drain of support Biden was facing among congressional Democrats who became increasingly convinced that a wipeout in November would also drown their down-ballot contests as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden\u2019s final decision to leave the race was reached in the last 48 hours, a senior campaign adviser said, as he consulted family and top advisers by telephone. He did not have a final in-person meeting with his top campaign or White House advisers as he recovered from Covid-19 at his beach home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His exit from the race sets the stage for the conclusion to a political career that has spanned a half-century, one that saw Biden enter as one of the youngest senators in US history and exit as its oldest president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Age and questions about the president\u2019s mental faculties had been Biden\u2019s biggest political liability since he first ran against Trump in 2020. Biden\u2019s disastrous performance at a June 27 debate \u2013 during which the president spoke softly, had a glazed-over look and, at one point, appeared to lose his train of thought mid-sentence while his opponent delivered an animated, while mainly fact-free performance \u2013 brought those concerns to the forefront of the political conversation and ultimately doomed his reelection push.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden\u2019s campaign had asked for the June debate in the hopes that it would force voters to tune into the race \u2013 and what Biden had said was at stake \u2013 earlier than usual. But that strategy appeared to backfire as the president solidified what had been the most persistent concern about his candidacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The president\u2019s performance shocked his donors, closest allies and the 50 million Americans who saw Biden stumble throughout the 90-minute debate \u2014 the most extensive exposure to an unscripted Biden since the last round of general-election debates four years ago. It left the White House and Biden campaign in a frenzied scramble to explain away his condition \u2013 at first, blaming it on a cold, before days later saying the president had been jet lagged by his international travel that wrapped up about 12 days prior to the debate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The president\u2019s surrogates and campaign officials sought to soothe Democratic anxieties, hurriedly calling meetings with donors and top supporters to assure them that Biden\u2019s performance was the product of one bad night and ask them to consider it in the context of his three-and-a-half-year presidency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The president himself recognized how poorly the night had gone almost immediately; at a campaign rally the next day, he sought to promote an animated and energized image that had largely been absent from the debate stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t walk as easy as I used to,\u201d Biden said. \u201cI don\u2019t speak as smoothly as I used to. I don\u2019t debate as well as I used to. But I know what I do know: I know how to tell the truth. I know right from wrong. I know how to do this job. I know how to get things done.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the damage had already been done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the Monday after the debate, murmurs about replacing Biden on the ticket had grown into a full public conversation. The mood in the White House and at Biden\u2019s campaign headquarters in Wilmington had turned sour. Biden, seeking to assert his control over his campaign and the presidency, delivered brief remarks that evening on the Supreme Court\u2019s immunity decision earlier that day, asking voters to \u201cdissent\u201d in a rare political overture from the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next day, Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Texas became the first member of Congress from Biden\u2019s own party to ask him to drop out. The fractures in Biden\u2019s support have grown steadily wider every day since. By the time Biden exited the race, dozens of lawmakers had asked him to bow out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So had major donors. Actor George Clooney, who has known Biden for years and was one of Hollywood\u2019s biggest boosters of the president, said in a July 10 media opinion piece that Democrats \u201care not going to win in November with this president\u201d and called for the party to pick a new nominee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden was initially defiant that he would remain in the race. But as the defections in his base of support continued, and leading Democrats in Congress continued to have difficult conversations with the president about his odds against Trump and the damaging effect he might have on down-ballot Democrats in competitive races, Biden opened himself up more to the idea of dropping out of the race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an interview with media on July 5, Biden laughed off questions about his political future and said only the \u201cLord Almighty\u201d could convince him to drop from the race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden told reporters at a NATO news conference he would drop out if polls showed he could not win. About a week later, he said he would reevaluate whether to stay in if he had \u201csome medical condition that emerged\u201d and doctors told him that would be an issue. The next day, the White House announced that Biden had Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attempt on Trump\u2019s life on July 13 briefly stemmed the flow of congressional Democrats calling for Biden to drop out and pulled the national attention away from his faltering presidential campaign. But the reprieve didn\u2019t last long. California Rep. Adam Schiff on July 17 became the first House Democrat to call on Biden to step down since the assassination attempt, and more followed in the ensuing days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden\u2019s evolution on his future as the party\u2019s nominee tracked closely with efforts among his biggest allies to convince him the path to victory was narrow. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Biden weeks after his debate that polls showed he could not win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A senior Democratic adviser told the media that the president was becoming \u201creceptive\u201d to conversations about him stepping aside: \u201cHe\u2019s gone from saying, \u2018Kamala can\u2019t win,\u2019 to \u2018Do you think Kamala can win?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those conversation accelerated as Biden isolated at his beach home with Covid over the last few days. Saturday night, Biden asked two of his closest advisers to start drafting the letter, according to a person familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many rank-and-file staff found out about Biden\u2019s decision when the post came out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor; msserwanga@gmail.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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