President Biden Drops Out of 2024 Race
WSJ What’s News
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 21 July 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:18.0 | President Biden says he is ending his re-election campaign, catapulting the |
| 0:26.4 | 2024 race into uncharted territory. Biden endorsed Vice President |
| 0:30.9 | Kamala Harris to replace him at the top of the ticket. |
| 0:33.5 | Harris accepted his support and vowed to earn the nomination. |
| 0:37.4 | It's Sunday July 21st, I'm Sabrina Siddiqui for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:41.6 | This is a special edition of What's News? |
| 0:44.1 | We'll look at the day's events and discuss the President's political legacy. |
| 0:47.8 | In a one-page letter President Joe Biden said he believed it was in the best |
| 0:55.7 | interest of his party and the country for him to stand down and focus solely on |
| 1:00.2 | fulfilling his duties as president for the remainder of his term. |
| 1:03.9 | He followed the announcement with a tweet endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him at the top |
| 1:08.1 | of the ticket, telling Democrats, it's time to come together and beat Trump. |
| 1:13.0 | Biden said he would address the nation later this week about his decision, |
| 1:17.0 | which came after a cascade of Democrats urged the president in both public and private to withdraw from the race. |
| 1:23.4 | The 81-year-old incumbent president's decision caps a five-decade political career and marks |
| 1:28.4 | one of the most monumental political collapses in American history. |
| 1:32.3 | In a written statement Harris acknowledged |
| 1:34.3 | Biden's endorsement and said it is her intention to earn and win this nomination. |
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