{"id":81659,"date":"2025-05-07T10:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T10:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/81659\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T10:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T10:57:08","slug":"biden-defends-waiting-until-last-minute-to-drop-out-of-2024-us-election-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/81659\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden defends waiting until last minute to drop out of 2024 US election \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Describing his administration as a \u201ctransition government,\u201d his presidency was \u201cso successful\u201d that \u201cit was hard to say, now I\u2019m going to stop,\u201d Biden said. <\/p>\n

\u201cThings moved so quickly that it made it difficult to walk away,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

After a disastrous debate performance against Trump in June inflamed already swirling concerns about his age and health, Biden faced public pressure to withdraw from fellow Democrats, including powerful Democratic party figure Nancy Pelosi, the former house speaker.<\/p>\n

Despite repeatedly vowing not to leave the race, he announced on July 21, just 106 days before the election, that he would no longer seek reelection, becoming the first incumbent president since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968 to do so.<\/p>\n

Calling it \u201ca hard decision\u201d to take his name off the ticket, it was nevertheless the \u201cright\u201d one, he told the BBC, adding it would not have \u201cmade much difference\u201d if he had dropped out sooner.<\/p>\n

Harris\u2019 campaign leadership told American political podcast Pod Save America last November that they did not have enough time<\/a> to come up with a strategy to defeat Trump. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a price to be paid for the short campaign,\u201d David Plouffe, a senior Harris campaign adviser, said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Describing his administration as a \u201ctransition government,\u201d his presidency was \u201cso successful\u201d that \u201cit was hard to say,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[1213,39588,32,33,714,2175,6902,48,39589,1772,19134,49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-81659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-americas","9":"tag-david-plouffe","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-elections","12":"tag-joe-biden","13":"tag-kamala-harris","14":"tag-nancy-pelosi","15":"tag-rights","16":"tag-u-s-election-2024","17":"tag-u-s-politics","18":"tag-u-s-presidential-campaigns","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114466196276191651","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}