The United States President, Joe Biden has revealed that he Withdrew from the November Presidential Elections because he feared that the intraparty battle over his candidacy would be a “real distraction” for Democrats.
Biden made his remarks in an interview with CBS, his first since announcing in late July that he would pull out of the race against Republican candidate Donald Trump over concerns about the future of U.S. democracy.
In his first interview since quitting the race, Biden blamed his poor debate performance on being sick at the time, saying it had nothing to do with his age.
Biden pledged to campaign for Kamala Harris saying he was going to do whatever his vice-president “thinks I can do to help most”.
“We must, we must, we must defeat Trump,” he told US broadcaster CBS News.
Mr Biden said if he had continued his campaign, the presidential contest would have gone “down to the wire”.
“A number of my Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate thought that I was going to hurt them in the races,” he said.
“And I was concerned if I stayed in the race, that would be the topic. You’d be interviewing me about, Why did Nancy Pelosi say, why did so — and I thought it’d be a real distraction.”
Recall that Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race for the White House on Sunday, July 21,2024, ending his bid for reelection after a disastrous debate with Donald Trump that raised doubts about the incumbent’s fitness for office.
To keep the battle going he announced his vice Kamala Harris, who has so far outperformed Mr Biden in opinion polls.
BBC//AFP
