Biden announces he is not running for re-election
The U.S. president gives up his bid to renew in the White House after weeks of pressures
Iker Seisdedos
Washington,
It took 17 agonizing days since the disastrous debate that pitted him against Donald Trump for Joe Biden to surrender to the evidence: the president of the United States announced this Sunday that, at 81 years of age, he is giving up the effort to run for re-election next November.
It has been three weeks of doubts about his physical and mental aptitudes to continue four more years in the White House, and of pressures in crescendo, in public and in private, from donors, strategists, analysts, media, senators, congressmen, and from his leaders in both Houses, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, as well as from Democratic Party’s tutelary figures such as Nancy Pelosior former President Barack Obama.
First, it was the “panic” felt by his supporters when they saw him erratic, from lapse to lapse, on the television set that CNN set up in Atlanta for the first presidential debate. Then they saw the New York Times editorial calling for his resignation and the first Democratic legislators to sign up on the list of those who begged him to consider it, which grew in number and in the prominence of its signatories until it exceeded thirty. Finally, Biden, who spent all that time defending his ability to hold office and defeat Trump, despite the evidence to the contrary, gave in to the pressure, and made a historic decision, which takes the United States into uncharted territory.
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