Biden drops out of presidential race after Democratic revolt following disastrous debate: ‘Best interest of the country’

October 20, 2024

6 President Biden announced he is dropping out of the 2024 presidential race. 6 Biden wrote that it is in the “best interest of my party and the country” to leave the race. They did not endorse Harris as his replacement, either — nor did Democratic Party Chairman Ben Wikler. “It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe ‘big F-ing deal’ Biden of 2010,” Clooney wrote in a Times op-ed. “He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020.