Breaking: Biden drops from race

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POLITICO's front page after June 27 debate between Trump and Biden.

President Joe Biden has dropped from the race for reelection, he announced in a letter on Sunday.

“It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President,” Biden wrote in a post on the social media site X. “It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President.”

“And while it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term,” Biden wrote.

Notably, he then endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris. California Gov.Gavin Newsom, Hillary Clinton, and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer are being discussed by Democrats, along with Gov. Shapiro of Pennsylvania are being discussed, as is an open nomination process at the Democratic National Convention.

His resignation letter, which was said to have been drafted for him earlier this week, was posted Sunday:

The announcement came the same day that eight state Democrat parties, including Alaska’s Democrat Party, had affirmed their support for Biden, while over 35 congressional Democrats had already told him they could not support him any longer.

The National Republican Congressional Committee posted a challenge for Alaska Rep. Mary Peltola, who has gone silent over the past month after sticking by her endorsement of Biden.

“Extreme House Democrats, including Mary Peltola, have been twisting themselves in knots trying to ignore the question on everyone’s minds: “Is Joe Biden fit to serve as President?”  the Republicans wrote.

“Democrats can’t have it both ways. If Joe Biden can’t handle a debate or a rally, he can’t stand up to Putin or have access to the nuclear codes,” the NRCC wrote. Peltola needs to answer the question, ‘Is the President fit to serve the rest of his term?'”

The presidential race is less than four months away and the Democratic National Convention in Chicago is August 19-22, when the nomination officially takes place.

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    • Right now Michelle is wealthy and popular. If she runs her thesis and her college speeches will come out and people would see a different side of her.

    • Doesn’t anybody understand if Michelle gets in, it won’t be her guiding the reins of the Government, it WILL BE Obama “ordering” her to govern whatever he requires. She’ll only be a stand-in.. We voted ANY and ALL of the Obama’s out of the government. Don’t be fooled that Michele will be pulling the strings. and He’ll complete what he wasn’t able to do back then.

  1. Shocked! 😳 Shocked, I tell you…Who knew!?! 🤷‍♂️ The leftists are following their well-planned (and predictable) script…

  2. Trump vs. Harris …
    Debates should be quite entertaining.
    Fire up the popcorn machine and stock the fridge with cold ones!!!

  3. Poor liberals cry your eyes out.
    This should be declared a world holiday.
    Hopefully he does not do much more damage to us and the world in these last days of darkness.

    • The price was negotiated, Jill and Hunter Biden made bank on selling the delegates back to the DNC. The Biden Crime dynasty is joining the Bush and Clinton Crime dynasties into the dust bin of history.

  4. Biden is very clearly unfit to continue in office. Now, without his resignation, Biden becomes a mere figurehead, a barely animated suit, for the next six months. His party will effusively praise him, of course, but Biden’s well-deserved legacy is to be known as the Worst President in U.S. History. The End.

  5. Been looking at various news sources. A developing narrative seems to be:

    The power brokers tried to force him out. He refused.
    The cabinet may have been about to 25th Amendment him.
    The democrats were hoping to create a thunderdome where potentials could vie for his replacement.
    He screwed them all by endorsing Harris.

    But God knows what the actual truth will turn out to be.

    The chaos will be frightening and entertaining.

    • He was always going to be pardoned. Whether old Joe ran, won or lost, or dropped out, it was always going to be between November and January, otherwise it will make the Dems look bad. If he does it before November, old Joe is giving the Dems one last stick in the eye. Hunter is just desperately hoping old Joe can make it to November or the Kackler might forget about him just like she forgot about the border.

    • And, as we know, Trump will pardon the Capitol rioters who broke down doors and beat the crap out of Capitol police (who could have shot the lawless rioters, as they were authorized to do).

      So it goes, with the hypocrisy of national politics on both sides of the aisle…

  6. Looks like Biden just got the proverbial horsehead in the bedsheets from Obama. Guess those millions of primary votes are only so much toilet paper to the so-called ‘defenders of democracy’.

    The complete implosion of the Democrats and their journalist handmaidens was a thing of beauty.
    Now Americans just need to make sure they don’t successfully murder Trump between now and the election.

  7. This is the best action for the country that Joe Biden has taken as President, it will only be out done when he resigns from office.

  8. Kamala should immediately invoke the 25th amendment and take over as President.
    If Joe’s corrupt and vapid brain cannot stand the rigorous campaign then he sure as hell isn’t fit to remain in office.

    The Democrats just opened Pandora’s
    box, this is a question of National security.
    The guy was NEVER up for the job in the first place. Let’s put pressure on Kamala to get this ball rolling.

  9. What you have here is a candidate well past his prime, giving terrible campaign speeches, just rambling incoherently. Now his opposition has decided to replace their candidate. This should make for some great debates coming up.

    • Did you just ASSUME Trumps gender???? Joe Biden is a very good representation of the average democrat.

  10. Stop your gloating – Trump is only a few years younger on the age and senility scales. His time will also come.

    Now the Dems will get fired up and give The Felon a run for his money.

    • Whidbey, your time was up two years ago. Go see your geriatric doc, and your proctologist. Time to get reamed back in, Whid.

    • The Dog.

      You really have nothing left, just criticism and ridicule. You think your party can run on that forever?

      How about we as the American people stop playing this political sports game of thinking one team is better than the other and just unite towards a common goal of making America great again? This mudslinging competition is only going to tear this country apart. Do you really want that? Is your team winning so important that you are willing to destroy half its people to get there?

      We don’t want that. We want all people to be happy and prosperous. Join us. Give us your vote and we will all be happy.

      Break free of your MSM talking points and brainwash. MAGA.

    • Time for Whidbey to take that job in the Fauci lab. Maybe it could be of so.e positive impact ax a test subject. First that little surgery thatfauci requires..where the vocal cords are cut to silence the cries Fauci is such a dog lover after all

    • Who’s gloating?
      That you can not see reality, which has been staring everyone in the face for many months, is a you problem. Many have pointed out that our commander in chief hasn’t appeared to be in command of very much, including is faculties lately. I repeat what I have said, this goes way beyond party politics. Biden’s mental state is direct threat to the country!
      Sadly eventually ALL our time will come yours included, so let’s not project your candidate’s frailties on others just yet.
      As for the Dems getting fired up about Kamala….I have my doubts. I just don’t sense a whole lot of enthusiasm for some one, who goes to Chicago to deal with the border and she will have to run on Biden’s record.

      • When Lester Holt pointed out that Kamala Harris had been to the border after having been placed in charge of handling the border Kamala Harris said “We’ve been to the border. So this whole thing about the border. We’ve been to the border. We’ve been to the border.”
        Lest Holt responded “You haven’t been to the border,” to which the Vice President said “And I haven’t been to Europe,” then kackled before adding “And I mean, I don’t … understand the point that you’re making.” The point he was making was that she hadn’t been to the border, even though she was caught in a bald face lie that she had just repeated three times.

    • It is not the age, it is the mental acuity.
      While Trump is definitely not Einstein, Biden made it all the way up to Forrest Gump on a good day.
      .
      Knock Trump all you want, but for an 80ish year old, he is pretty well on the ball. Heck, for a 60 year old he is on the ball.

    • Trump is 78 years old, morbidly obese, has heart disease, and sports only half of a right ear. Despite his bluster, we know that power brokers in the Republican Party will moderate his nonsensical impulses. We therefore, wisely, will skew our votes as much for JD Vance instead of the Orange Man.

  11. ““Extreme House Democrats, including Mary Peltola, have been twisting themselves in knots trying to ignore the question on everyone’s minds: “Is Joe Biden fit to serve as President?” the Republicans wrote.”

    Either they’re having Biden step down because he’s losing in the polls, in which case, they’re definitely not democratic, or they’re having Biden step down because he’s unfit to service, in which case, he should no longer be president.

    I’m sure the mainstream media will find ways to gaslight all this, however. Ending democracy is okay as long as the Democratic Party is doing it. They should really change the name of their party. They’re anything but democratic.

  12. How much did Dr Jill get? I’m sure it wasn’t cheap. Ugh, Kamala. They’re going to play the race card now…we could make history, first female to be president, first black female president, etc.

    • Cman, it is funny to watch you and your party self immolate in real time and all you can seem to do is point your finger at us and whine.

      Get a life man. The world is beautiful. MAGA is not your enemy. We all just want a better world.

      Do yourself a favor, go outside and enjoy the sunshine.

      • I’m not a registered Democrat and never have been. I made a statement of fact. Trump still can’t admit he lost to Biden so no way would he ever concede to Harris if he loses. You know this to be true.

        Oh, and I did get outside today. Mowed my yard and did some work on the roof. Thanks for the suggestion though.

        • Then why you always gotta be in attack mode? Do you propose any solution to the issues you fight against? All I see is you bullying people but never actually offer any help. What kind of person are you anyways? If you just wanna be right all the time, I get it. We all have our vices, but don’t pretend that you are entitled to one up someone all the time. The conflict must be tiresome.

        • I have no doubt in my mind that Trump would admit the election was not stolen if someone, anyone, actually investigated the anomalies seen in the 2020 election.
          .
          But, instead, all you hear was “it was the most secure election ever” and anyone who actually demands it gets looked into is threatened with arrest.
          .
          Seriously, if I won the Presidency with the largest number of votes ever recorded, I would encourage everyone alive to confirm it, investigate everything that looked funny, and prove beyond any shadow of a doubt that I won cleanly, decisively, and completely. But, instead there are lawsuits, censorship, and restistance.

    • “IF”??
      She has to get the nomination first and there is a very steep hill to climb for her. She is not the most likeable person.
      I saw a video of her talking about an “US alliance with the republic of NORTH Korea” which according to her is strong and enduring, while standing at the Demilitarized zone in SOUTH Korea…
      or this at Space command: “Space is exciting and it forces us to use our imagination and to ask big questions. Space affects us all and it connects us all”! …..oh yeah who needs Joe!

  13. Might as well drop from the race. He’s getting ready to drop from the planet. Joe, where’s the torch? Oh, it’s in Paris.

  14. Someone on X commented that the letter is not on official letterhead. Seems like it should be if it came from Biden, but, I don’t know.

  15. I would like to see Mark Kelly as the candidate. At least voters would have a choice of someone they can respect. Would be more in line with Republicans on border security and energy development.

    • Speaking as a Republican, I have ZERO respect for Mark Kelly. None whatsoever. The nicest thing I can say about him is he is a globalist.

  16. This is fascinating to watch, as for many years our liberal friends have echoed the MSM rant about employing the 25th Amendment against Trump because he is “not fit”. Yet when we have a president, who clearly displays issues…crickets for a long time. What American does that?
    Wonder if they really think that Putin and the Chinese are going to look at the clock and think;
    “oho it is 7:59pm EDT! We better wait until 10 AM tomorrow with our attack, so we don’t have to wake Biden! He may be so confused that he will fire the entire nuclear arsenal at us….”
    Conservatives are NOT the enemy. They are simply fellow Americans, who believe in a different future for the country, where laws actually mean something, the border exists and immigration is orderly and lawful.

    • That would certainly blunt the “convicted felon” narrative they are throwing at the opposition!

  17. That is not Joe Biden’s signature.

    Does Joe even realize he dropped out.

    Maybe he is dead and the deep state needs him to “resign” in order for things to go their way.

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