Folks, it is official. Joe Biden is out of the race. He has declared he will not be running for

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Join us as we fight the left and build the future. All righty, folks. So, Joe Biden is officially

out of the race. He announced it via Twitter of all places, Eastern time,

about 146 Eastern time. He announced it via Twitter, which I guess Elon wins, since that's the way he

decided to do it. I thought that if Joe Biden was going to do this, he would have announced

that he had a presser or some sort of big statement that he was going to give from the Oval Office

or from the White House somewhere, and then he was going to do that at a preset time later in the evening. That is not how he chose to do it. Instead, he released the following letter. Here's the text of the letter. Again, just a screenshot released via Twitter, quote, My fellow Americans, over the past three and a half years, we have made great progress as a nation.

Today, America has the strongest economy in the world.

We've made historic investments in rebuilding our nation, in lowering prescription drug costs for seniors, and in expanding affordable health care to a record number of Americans.

We've provided critically needed care to a million veterans exposed to toxic substances.

Past the first gun safety law in 30 years,

appointed the first African-American woman to the Supreme Court. By the way, only he's allowed to mention that. If you mentioned that, you're a racist and passed the most significant climate legislation in the history of the world. Hmm, interesting. America has never been better positioned to lead than we are today. Hmm, I feel like if that were true, he would not be dropping out of the race. He wouldn't have like a 32% approval rating. He continues,

I know none of this could have been done without you, the American people. Together, we overcame a once-in-a-century pandemic and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. We've protected and preserved our democracy, and we've revitalized and strengthened our alliances around the world.

Like every element of this, of course, is untrue, which is the real reason he is dropping out as we'll get to in a moment. It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your president, and while it has been my intention to seek re-election, 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 turn. I'll speak to the nation later this week in more detail about my decision.

For now, let me express my deepest gratitude to all those who have worked so hard to see me re-elected. I want to thank Vice President Kamala Harris for being an extraordinary partner in all this work, and let me express my heartfelt appreciation to the American people for the faith and trust you have placed in me. I believe today what I always have, there's nothing America can't do when we do it together. We just have to remember we are the United States of America and a boo-yman. Okay, now, there are many things about this message that are rather shocking. Number one, he says that he is stepping away from his candidacy, but not from the presidency. So why? And that's the obvious question.

If you are in a state of senility, you need to step away from the presidency because we're about to launch into one of the most dangerous periods in American history.

The rest of the world knows that Joe Biden is a lame duck president.

They know that at very best, his successor might be able to take over for another term. But they also know that he's totally senile and not in control of his faculties at this point. I mean, when Joe Biden wakes up and someone tells him he's no longer running for president, he's going to be quite shocked about that, I would assume. I mean, by the way, he could wake up tomorrow and undo this, I would assume also, since he's been vacillating on this,

as we now know, for weeks. But this means a couple of big things, obviously. It means that Kamala Harris,

as we'll see in a moment, is likely to be the Democratic presidential nominee for president.

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