US Elections: Joe Biden’s full letter of resignation from his candidacy
Over these three and a half years, we have made great progress as a nation. Today America is one of the strongest economies in the worldWe made a historic investment in rebuilding our nation, lowering drug costs for seniors, and expanding health care for a record number of Americans. We provided care to a million veterans exposed to toxic substances. We passed the first gun safety law in 30 years. We appointed the first African-American woman to the Supreme Court. We passed the most important climate legislation in the history of the world. America has never been better positioned to lead than it is today.
I know that none of this could have been achieved without you, the American people.Together we faced a pandemic and one of the worst economic crises since the Great Depression. We protected and preserved democracy. And we revitalized close alliances around the world.
It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President. And while my intention has been to seek re-election, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country that I step down and concentrate solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term.
I will speak to the Nation later this week in more detail about my decision.
For now, I want to express my deep gratitude to those who worked so hard for my reelection. And I want to thank my Vice President Kamala Harris for being an extraordinary partner in this work. And let me express my gratitude to the American people. through the faith you have placed in me.
I believe what I’ve always believed: that there’s nothing America can’t do when we do it together. We must remember that we are the United States of America.
US elections: what happens next
Now, the Democratic Party must choose a new candidate to be presented in the November elections. In recent weeks, Kamala Harris’ name has been the one that has been heard the most, even internally the party has already carried out polls to see the results that the current vice president would obtain against Trump. In the press conference that Biden gave during the NATO summit in Washington – in which he confused President Volodymyr Zelensky with the Russian Vladimir Putin – he already put Harris in the spotlight and praised her: “I wouldn’t have chosen her [como vicepresidente] “if it weren’t for the fact that I believed I was qualified for the position of president.”
According to a survey by the American news agency AP and the NORC think tank, Nearly 60% of Democratic voters believed Harris would be a good president and only two in ten voters thought she would not. The results also show that the vice president was not very popular among American citizens, with only three in ten believing she would do well in office.
An earlier poll, also conducted by AP and NORC, found that 65% of Democratic voters believed Biden should withdraw from the presidential race and let the party choose another candidate. And so it happened.
Now the Democratic Party will have to find a replacement, either male or female, with only a few days left until the convention scheduled for Chicago (north) from August 19. Vice President Kamala Harris would be a natural, but not automatic, choice to become the candidate.
Joe Biden finally gave in to pressure
Biden finally bowed to pressure from his own party after his lackluster performance in the first debate of the race for the White House against former president and Republican candidate Donald Trump. Dozens of lawmakers and senators had asked him in recent days to abandon the baton because of his advanced age.
The 81-year-old Democrat thus joins the very limited club of outgoing US presidents who have thrown in the towel in their attempt to secure a second term. But he is the first to do so at this stage of the campaign. And the only one who had to realize that he was defeated by doubts about his mental acuity following a calamitous debate with his Republican rival Donald Trump.
Source: Ambito
