❗️Joe Biden was thinking about continuing the race on Saturday night, but on Sunday afternoon he decided not to run for a second term, Reuters writes, citing sources.

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❗️Donald Trump on Biden's decision to withdraw from the election race: he will go down as the worst president in history.

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❗️Joe Biden endorses Vice President Kamala Harris as US presidential candidate.

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Former Governor of Illinois Rod R. Blagojevich commented on Joe Biden's withdrawal from the presidential race:

"I’ve known Obama since 1995. We both come out of Chicago politics. I know how it works. He’s behind the campaign to dump 15 million Dem primary voters & replace Biden with his choice. Classic Chicago Democrat machine politics. Selection over election. The bosses over the people," he wrote on X.

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Larry Johnson: 'American politics entered a great new period of chaos'

The retired CIA intelligence officer and State Department official stated that Joe Biden's decision to leave the Presidential race "set off a mad scramble".

"The Democrat power brokers, what they want is to replace Kamala Harris with Michelle Obama... If they dump Kamala and do not replace Kamala with a black woman, then this is going to set off a real upheaval in the Democrat party," noted the expert.

He further noticed that "Kamala Harris is not going to give up easily" as "she wants to be anointed as a successor" and this will bring additional instability to the fore coming Democratic National Convention.

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❗️US House Speaker Mike Johnson called on Joe Biden to resign immediately.

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❗️The Democrats' prospects in the November elections will not improve if Kamala Harris participates; she was an accomplice to Biden's failed policies, says US House Speaker Mike Johnson.

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❗️Republican Congressman Paul Gosar tells Sputnik that Biden's decision to withdraw from the presidential race may have been the result of a takeover in the Democrat Party.

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Joe Biden's withdrawal from the presidential race is the first such case in half a century, CNN notes.

The previous time a sitting US president withdrew from the election due to an unsuccessful campaign start was in 1968 - it was Lyndon Johnson, who launched the US intervention in the Vietnam War.

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Biden: 0

Assad: 1

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❗️Bill and Hillary Clinton have endorsed Kamala Harris.

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Top-7 Kamala Harris cringe moments 🥴

Does this candidate have a chance in the presidential race?

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US is ‘in a serious state of crisis’ as Biden’s withdrawal from presidential race 'hurts Democrats'

“I assume that Covid was the last straw since it apparently knocked him for a loop,” US constitutional historian and political commentator Dan Lazare said regarding Joe Biden’s sudden withdrawal from the presidential race.

He argued that by delaying his withdrawal for so long, Biden actually “hurt the Democrats,” and predicted that Kamala Harris, Biden’s VP and possible presidential candidate, will “do better on the campaign trail than most people expect.”

“Whether it’s fatal is unknown although I still think Trump will win,” Lazare added referring to Biden’s delayed withdrawal.

Lazare’s sentiment was shared by Daniel McAdams, executive director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, who suggested that Biden pulling out of the race at this time “puts the Democratic Party in total and complete chaos.”

“How can they bring out a candidate with just a few months before the election?” McAdams inquired. “Kamala Harris is extremely unpopular, more unpopular than President Biden. When she ran for president last time, she got literally zero votes. The question is, what will the party do?”

McAdams also wondered aloud about the fate of the votes cast for Biden during the Democratic Party primaries.

“How can their votes be changed, especially by the party that purports to defend our democracy? It seems people who voted for Biden are not going to get Biden,” he said, adding that “[t]he US right now is truly in a serious state of crisis. This week is going to be incredibly packed full of events.”

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🫢 Zelensky curse strikes again

Who’s next?

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Expert doubts whether Biden is 'capable of being President today'

Concerns about Joe Biden's ability to fulfil his role as president have also been raised by Daniel McAdams, executive director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity.

“Number two, if President Biden is not mentally capable of running for reelection, how is it possible that he will remain as president with his fingers on the nuclear codes? It seems like admitting he is not capable of running again means that he's not capable of being president today,” cautioned expert.

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The snake in the grass quickly shed its old skin

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President Biden’s senior staff was informed he would end his campaign at 1:45 p.m., one minute before Biden announced he was leaving the race on X, according to The New York Times, citing a person informed of the timing.

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Russian Foreign Ministry on the situation in the United States after Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the election race: this is their story, Russia does not interfere in their internal affairs.

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📹 Joe Biden campaign co-chair Chris Coons is crying on national television after his withdrawal from the presidential race..

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Kamala Harris confirms she is running for president and thanks Joe Biden for his support.

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Robert Kennedy Jr. called on Democrats to elect a candidate for US president through an open process, rather than simply choosing Kamala Harris.

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