President Biden has just announced that he is ending his re-election bid.

When it finally happened, it felt both inevitable and unfathomable.

The president tweeted out,

it has been the greatest honor of my life

to serve as your president.

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 term. President Biden was out.

And shortly after, he endorsed his Vice President, Kamala Harris.

Biden had finally fulfilled his promise to be a bridge to the next generation, albeit under pressure.

Harris issued a statement later in the day.

She says that she was honored to have received President Biden's endorsement and intends

to earn and win the nomination for the presidency.

Today, in a special episode of the run-up, a top Democratic donor on what

ultimately toppled the Biden campaign, in an inside look at where Democrats go next.

From the New York Times, I'm a Stet Herndon.

This is the debate.

The first was the voters, who for more than a year had been pretty open about their concerns with Biden's age and whether he should serve a second term.

But following the debate, Biden fell even further behind in battleground state polling, which contributed to the second factor at play, the elected

officials. As more and more of them saw the bleak polling numbers, Biden's hold on the party started to break,

which led new elected officials to come out against him,

including people and crucial House and Senate races,

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