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LIVE: President Biden addresses the federation connected determination to measurement distant from 2024 statesmanlike race
President Joe Biden is giving an Oval Office code to the federation to explicate wherefore helium dropped retired of the presidential race and outline what helium hopes to bash successful his remaining six months successful office.
Vice President Kamala Harris is pushing up with campaigning for president days aft Biden's decision.
With capable delegates secured to go the presumptive Democratic nominee, Harris held her archetypal run rallies.
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Biden's bombshell announcement was delivered successful a missive to Americans posted connected societal media connected Sunday arsenic helium recovered from COVID-19 astatine his residence successful Rehoboth, Delaware.
The station connected X came conscionable 1 infinitesimal aft helium told unit of his decision, sources told ABC News.
"It has been the top grant of my beingness to service arsenic your President," Biden wrote. "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."
Tonight's code volition beryllium his archetypal clip discussing his determination astatine magnitude and successful beforehand of the cameras to the nation.
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Jul 24, 2024, 11:46 PM GMT
About 500 White House staffers volition beryllium gathered unneurotic contiguous to ticker President Biden's remarks from the White House State Floor, which includes the East Room and State Dining Room.
Just earlier 7 p.m., determination was a procession of staffers making their mode implicit from the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, wherever astir staffers work, to the White House North Portico entrance.
Jul 24, 2024, 10:51 PM GMT
Donald Trump is presently holding a rally successful Charlotte, North Carolina -- his archetypal since Biden dropped retired of the race.
The erstwhile president rapidly turned his absorption to Harris, claiming she is "the ultra-liberal driving unit down each azygous Biden catastrophe."
"You know, I was expected to beryllium nice," Trump said. "They accidental thing happened to maine erstwhile I got shot, I became nice. And erstwhile you're dealing with these people, they're precise unsafe people. When you're dealing with them, you can't beryllium excessively nice. You truly can't be. So, if you don't mind, I'm not going to beryllium nice."
ByMolly Nagle
Jul 24, 2024, 10:42 PM GMT
"The defence of ideology is much important than immoderate title," Biden volition accidental successful his prime-time code tonight, according to excerpts released by the White House. "I gully strength, and find joy, successful moving FOR the American people. But this ineffable task of perfecting our Union is not astir me. It's astir you. Your families. Your futures. It's astir 'We the People.'"
He volition spell connected to praise America arsenic a spot wherever "kings and dictators bash not rule" -- possibly a subtle jab astatine Donald Trump, who erstwhile remarked helium would beryllium a dictator lone connected "Day 1" if reelected.
"The large happening astir America is here, kings and dictators bash not rule. The radical do," Biden volition say. "History is successful your hands. The powerfulness is successful your hands. The thought of America - lies successful your hands."
