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Joe Biden Drops Out Of 2024 Presidential Race, Endorses Kamala Harris
Weeks after a disastrous debate performance, POTUS has made the decision to withdraw from his reelection campaign
Expected in Biden’s decision and announcement came after weeks of revolt among party donors, supporters and congressional members that the president’s electoral chances were dimming following a disastrous debate performance that raised new concerns about his age. The daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants, Harris’ rise was relatively quick, with parallels to that of Barack Obama, another biracial candidate that mirrors the increasing diversity of the American populous. By the summer of 2020, with the country in the midst of the Covid pandemic and a racial reckoning following the death of George Floyd, Biden, who already had said he would pick a woman as a running mate, zeroed in on Harris, along with other prominent figures including Elizabeth Warren, Gretchen Whitmer and Susan Rice.
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