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Biden Drops Out of Presidential Race


President Biden acceded to calls to drop out of the race, after a fumbling and often incoherent debate performance on June 27.

President Joe Biden has decided not to seek re-election, having failed to salvage his campaign after a disastrous debate performance on June 27 and a series of televised gaffes. Biden faced public pressure from figures in the Democratic Party as well as Hollywood donors after he stumbled through the CNN debate, in which he failed to counter points made by former President Trump, fumbling his words and often drifting off mid-thought. George Clooney, who co-hosted the single largest fundraiser supporting any Democratic candidate ever, wrote a July 10 op-ed in The New York Times calling for the president to step down.

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