David Bridges
Over the previous a number of many years, the American presidential election has included both a Biden, a Clinton or a Bush on the poll. However since President Joe Biden dropped out of this yr’s race, that is the primary time that an election won’t embody any of the households’ names. Biden, 81, beforehand ran for president in 1988, then once more in 2008.
In 1980, Ronald Reagan chosen George H.W. Bush as his working mate, they usually received. Eight years later, Bush turned president. In 1992, Invoice Clinton defeated Bush. By 2000, George W. Bush ran for president and received, serving two phrases till 2008. That yr, Invoice’s spouse, Hillary Clinton, ran for president for the primary time towards Barack Obama, then once more in 2016 towards Donald Trump.
On Sunday, July 21, Biden made the historic determination to drop out of the presidential race and keep away from in search of reelection. His selection got here amid public pleas from Democrats and celebrities, who requested Biden to forgo the Democratic nomination. Many cited his age as a predominant concern.
My fellow Democrats, I’ve determined to not settle for the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as President for the rest of my time period. My very first determination because the occasion nominee in 2020 was to select Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the perfect… pic.twitter.com/x8DnvuImJV
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) July 21, 2024
“It has been the best honor of my life to function your President. And whereas it has been my intention to hunt reelection, I consider it’s in the perfect curiosity of my occasion and the nation for me to face down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the rest of my time period,” Biden wrote in his public letter to the nation. “I consider immediately what I all the time have: that there’s nothing America can’t do – once we do it collectively. We simply have to recollect we’re america of America.”
The Clintons and the Obamas publicly endorsed Harris and thanked Biden for serving the nation.
Biden additionally endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to be the Democratic Celebration’s nominee. Whereas the occasion has not confirmed her nomination, Harris vowed she would “earn and win” it.
It is the primary full day of our marketing campaign, so I am heading as much as Wilmington, DE later to say “whats up” to our workers in HQ.
At some point down. 105 to go. Collectively, we’ll win this.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) July 22, 2024
At some point after Biden introduced his determination, Harris shared by way of X that she was heading to Delaware to talk along with her workers on their first day on the marketing campaign path.
“At some point down. 105 to go,” she tweeted. “Collectively, we’re going to win this.”
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