He accepted his withdrawal so as not to affect the re-election chances of his congressmen and avoids talking about Pelosi as a possible architect of his withdrawal
The president of the United States, Joe Biden, has explained that his decision to drop out of the race for re-election took place when he realized that his persistence in continuing as a candidate was harming his colleagues in the Democratic Party in the face of the simultaneous legislative elections that are held in November.
In an interview with the CBS network, Biden rejects that he decided to drop out due to poor results in internal polls or due to the influence of the person considered in many reports to be the main architect of his withdrawal, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi.
“The polls that we were considering showed that he was still neck and neck” against his Republican rival, Donald Trump, “and the final result was going to be decided at the last moment,” said the president.
“What happened was that several of my colleagues in Congress thought that my presence was going to hurt them in their respective electoral races, and what worried me is that I could end up making that the topic of conversation,” he added.
“You would have ended up asking me about Pelosi and it would have become a real distraction,” Biden added before indicating that, ultimately, he recalled that he became president of the United States with the idea of leading a “transition stage”, although “things accelerated to such an extent that there was a moment when I thought it was not going to happen.”
In the last months of his electoral career and already in question, Biden explained on several occasions that his desire to run for another term was given because he saw himself as the only possible candidate capable of defeating Trump at the polls. “And I continue to think that right now it is the most important thing for this country: we must, we must, we must defeat Trump,” he said about the tycoon, whom he described as “a genuine danger to national security.”
Biden took the opportunity to declare his full support for his vice president, Kamala Harris, as the party’s virtual candidate for the November elections and assured that at some point, and if his schedule allows, he will accompany her during the campaign.
“I talk to her frequently,” Biden said before also applauding the figure of Harris’ chosen candidate for Vice President, the governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz. “It’s as if we grew up in the same neighborhood. He’s my kind of man. An honest and intelligent guy. I think they will make a great team.”
