President Biden, who has long said he ran for the White House in 2020 because of his concerns about the former president Donald Trumpdecided to dropped out of the 2024 presidential race last monthHe says his decision was motivated in part by his belief that he needed to keep the country’s focus on Trump and unite the Democratic Party ahead of the November election.
In a interview with “CBS News Sunday Morning”, On the Sunday, August 11 broadcast, Biden, CBS News chief election and campaign correspondent Robert Costa, elaborated on his historic decision not to run for re-election, reiterating his earlier statement that he would serve as a transitional figure in U.S. presidential politics.
“When I first ran, I saw myself as a transition president,” Mr Biden, 81, told Costa. “I can’t even say how old I am — it’s hard for me to get it out of my mouth.”
Biden endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, who will be nominated as the Democratic standard-bearer at the party’s national conference in Chicago this month.
“We have to, we have to, we have to beat Trump,” Biden said in the interview, which took place in the Treaty Room of the White House residence.
“While it’s a great honor to be president, I think I have an obligation to the country to do what I — the most important thing you can do. And that is — we have to, we have to, we have to defeat Trump,” he said.
Mr Biden announced he was withdrawing from the 2024 race and endorsed Harris as the Democratic Party nominee on Sunday, July 21 — nearly a month after his debate against Trump, which raised concerns among some of his Democratic colleagues and led to dozens to ask him to withdraw.
In a Address of the Oval Office On July 24, Biden said that “nothing, nothing, can stand in the way of saving our democracy,” including his ambition for a second term.
A CBS News poll released on August 4 showed Harris gaining momentum with a 1-point lead nationally and a tie in the battleground states. Mr. Biden trailed by 5 points when he left the race.
Harris hopes that Tim Walz, the optimistic two-term governor of Minnesota, will give her Democratic slate new momentum and help her win key states.
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