On Sunday afternoon, President Joe Biden posted a statement announcing an end to his bid for a second term. He has announced he will endorse Vice President Kamala Harris to run for President instead against Republican nominee and former President Donald Trump.
Since the announcement, politicians on both sides of the aisle, as well as foreign leaders, have come forward to comment on his historic choice.
Since the announcement, politicians on both sides of the aisle, as well as foreign leaders, have come forward to comment on his historic choice.
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00:00I do think it's problematic. I think millions of the American people believe that this is problematic.
00:04This is not the way the system is supposed to work. There's a reason it's unprecedented.
00:08You don't just, you know, steamroll the rules of the process because you decide that your candidates are no longer successful.
00:14That's what's happened here. I think you're right about that.
00:16We'll see how the campaign unfolds.
00:19She will not be tough to beat, though, not at all.
00:21We're excited about Congress.
00:24I have to suggest that the president should resign.
00:27If everyone acknowledges that he's incapable of running a campaign that's clearly incapable of running a campaign.
00:35It has been, and it remains, the honor and privilege of my lifetime to work for President Biden.
00:41I've been working for him now for more than 22 years.
00:44And if you step back for a second and think about what he inherited when he took office,
00:52maybe the worst health crisis in at least 100 years in this country,
00:59the worst economic crisis going back to the Great Recession,
01:03the worst democratic crisis in as long as I can think.
01:06And we had countries around the world looking at all of this and circling like sharks
01:14to see if they could take advantage of the perceived weakness of the United States.
01:20And what he did, what he's done, what he continues to do over these three and a half years
01:25and going forward through the remainder of this term has been to turn all of that around in a powerful way.
01:30The investments that we've made here at home, in our future, in our competitiveness,
01:36whether it's through the infrastructure bill, whether it's through the Chips and Science Act,
01:40whether it's through the Inflation Reduction Act,
01:43countries around the world see that we're serious about investing in ourselves and competing strongly.
01:48President Biden's selfless decision has given the Democratic Party the opportunity to unite behind a new nominee,
01:56and boy, oh boy, are we enthusiastic.
01:59When I spoke with her Sunday, she said she wanted the opportunity to win the nomination on her own
02:06and to do so from the grassroots up, not top down.
02:11We deeply respected that. Hakeem and I did.
02:15She said she would work to earn the support of our party, and boy, has she done so in quick order.
02:23Vice President Harris has done a truly impressive job securing the majority of delegates needed to win
02:30the Democratic Party's nomination to be our next president of the United States.
02:35The vast majority of my senators quickly and enthusiastically endorsed her.
02:41So now that the process has played out from the grassroots bottom up,
02:46we are here today to throw our support behind Vice President Kamala Harris.
02:53Joe Biden will go down in American history as one of the most consequential presidents of all time.
03:04President Joe Biden has made the selfless decision to pass the torch to Vice President Kamala Harris,
03:14who is ready, willing and able to lead us into the future.
03:23Kamala Harris will fight for our freedom. Kamala Harris will fight for our families.
03:29Kamala Harris will fight for our future.
03:32I'm proud to strongly endorse Kamala Harris to be the 47th president of the United States of America.
03:40We're going to hold the Senate. We're going to win the House.
03:43We're going to elect Kamala Harris as our next president in November.