US President Joe Biden gave his first interview since dropping out of the presidential race and went into detail about why he decided to drop out of re-election.
Biden went on record saying that CBS News Sunday Morning He showed and revealed that his decision to leave the US electoral race was taken solely so that the Democratic Party could deal with the more immediate task without distractions, which is to defeat Donald Trump on November 5.
“The polls we had showed that it was a very close race, it would have been very close. […] But what happened was that a number of my Democratic colleagues in the House and the Senate thought that it was going to hurt them in the races,” the president said. csb chain.
President Biden also explained how his candidacy would have become a distraction from the real task by saying, “And I was worried that if I stayed in the race, that would be the issue. I would be interviewed about 'Why [former speaker of the House of Representatives] Nancy Pelosi said… 'Why is so-and-so…?' And I thought that would be a real distraction,” Biden added.
The president had dropped out of his re-election campaign and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic presidential nominee in July after coming under pressure, both publicly and privately, from members of his party to drop out of the race.
However, during the interview, Biden insisted that the main reason behind stepping back and letting Harris take the lead was to preserve democracy and defeat former President Trump, who is the Republican Party's presidential nominee.
“I thought it was important. Because, while it is a great honor to be president, I believe I have an obligation to the country to do what I want.” [is] “The most important thing we can do is defeat Trump.”
