President Biden’s announcement on July 21 that he would withdraw from the 2024 presidential race shocked the nation and the world. Donald Trump.
“It is in the best interest of our party and our country that I step down,” Biden, 81, said, endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris, before adding in an Oval Office speech that it was time to “pass the baton to a new generation.”
“It’s over,” read the New York Post’s front page alongside a photo of Biden. “The 2024 race is back,” said Hawaii’s Tribune-Herald. “Biden withdraws, another dramatic turn in hotly contested race,” said The Irish Times. “Goodbye Biden,” said Swiss newspaper Blick.
Biden picked Harris as his running mate, won every state’s Democratic presidential primaries and fully entered the 2024 presidential race, but after his debate with Trump was widely criticized as a disastrous performance and polls showed him lagging behind Trump, Biden withdrew from the race.
It was a landmark day in American history. Biden is one of the few presidents not to seek a second term, while other presidents, including James K. Polk, James Buchanan, Rutherford B. Hayes, Theodore Roosevelt and Calvin Coolidge, announced early on that they would not run and did not launch reelection campaigns.
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