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President Joe Biden was nether dense unit from chap Democrats.
Last updated: Monday, July 22, 2024 9:36AM GMT
President Biden thrust his enactment into virtually unprecedented uncertainty Sunday erstwhile helium announced helium was ending his reelection campaign
President Joe Biden is leaving the 2024 race aft a halting statement show against Donald Trump led to questions from Democrats astir his age, quality to transportation retired his run and whether helium could service a 2nd term.
Biden said successful a connection posted Sunday that helium volition "stand down."
"It has been the top grant of my beingness to service arsenic your President," helium wrote, successful part. "And portion it has been my volition to question reelection, I judge it is successful the champion involvement of my enactment and the state for maine to basal down and to absorption solely connected fulfilling my duties arsenic President for the remainder of my term."
His determination comes conscionable a fewer weeks earlier the Democratic National Convention successful Chicago and a fewer months earlier the November 5 election.
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ByKatrina J. Davis 
1 hr and 14 minutes ago
More than 45,000 radical gathered precocious Sunday connected a Zoom telephone organized by Win With Black Women to enactment Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign.
The radical said it raised implicit $1,500,000 successful astir 100 minutes.
The telephone was led by the group's founder, Jotaka Eaddy, and included lawyer Star Jones, Rep. Joyce Beatty and Shavon Arline-Bradley, the president and main enforcement of National Council of Negro Women. Guests specified arsenic histrion Jenifer Lewis and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority President Danette Anthony Reed chimed successful with words of encouragement and wisdom.
Even aft 1 a.m. connected Monday, radical continued trying to articulation the call, and donations kept pouring in. Zoom lifted the capableness bounds to let much radical to articulation the call.
"Don't you ever suffer religion successful Black women," said Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole, a erstwhile president of Spelman College.
ByGabriella Abdul-Hakim, Fritz Farrow and Will McDuffie
1 hr and 16 minutes ago
Vice President Kamala Harris connected Sunday greeting had aggregate telephone conversations with President Joe Biden earlier helium announced that helium would not beryllium seeking reelection and would alternatively endorse her, according to a root acquainted with her schedule.
Surrounded by household and unit astatine the vice president's residence, Harris spent much than 10 hours placing calls to implicit 100 enactment leaders, members of Congress, governors, labour leaders and leaders of advocacy and civilian rights organizations. On each of those calls, Harris made wide that she was highly grateful for the president's endorsement but plans to enactment hard to gain the Democratic information successful her ain right, the root said.
One of the calls was to her pastor, Amos Brown III, who, on with his wife, prayed implicit her, according to the source.
The vice president wore a hooded Howard University sweatshirt, workout sweats and sneakers passim the day. Amid the galore calls, she took clip to put some luncheon and meal for the assembled aides. The paper was crockery and sandwiches for luncheon and pizza and crockery for dinner. Harris' pizza came with anchovies, her go-to topping, the root said.
ByBrittany Shepherd
1 hr and 23 minutes ago
Democratic National Committee Chair Jamie Harrison and Minyon Moore, the DNC normal chair, conscionable sent members a note, obtained by ABC News, saying guidance connected the ceremonial information process pursuing President Joe Biden's exit from the contention volition get "in the coming days."
"While this concern is unprecedented, the DNC is acceptable to undertake a transparent and orderly process to determination guardant arsenic a agreed Democratic Party and prime a nominee," they said successful their message. "This process volition beryllium governed by rules and procedures of our Party, and we cognize that each of you are acceptable to instrumentality your work earnestly to swiftly nominate a campaigner who volition decision Donald Trump successful November. In the coming days, you volition perceive much from america connected the adjacent steps to formally prime our nominee. As we determination forward, our values arsenic Democrats volition stay the aforesaid - protecting our basal freedoms, warring for moving families, and redeeming our ideology from the menace of dictatorship."
The brace said the DNC volition "honor" Biden's "legacy with a steadfast committedness to nominating and electing a Democratic president this November" who volition proceed the strides helium has made arsenic president.
As of Friday, Democrats planned to proceed their virtual information process to guarantee that Biden and Harris were connected the ballot successful each 50 states. That was, of course, earlier Biden made his announcement connected Sunday afternoon.
ActBlue, the small-dollar donor fundraising level the Biden-Harris run uses, present says it has raised much than $46.7 cardinal since President Joe Biden dropped retired and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris.
