Read President Joe Biden's full letter announcing he's leaving 2024 presidential race

President Joe Biden announced to the federation connected Sunday that helium is "standing down" from moving successful the 2024 statesmanlike race.

The quality comes arsenic respective apical Democratic voices called for him to measurement speech from his bid for reelection aft a shaky statement show against erstwhile President Donald Trump successful June.

Read Biden's afloat missive announcing his departure from the 2024 contention below:

"My Fellow Americans, Over the past 3 and a fractional years, we person made large advancement arsenic a Nation. Today, America has the strongest system successful the world. We've made historical investments successful rebuilding our Nation, successful lowering medicine cause costs for seniors, and successful expanding affordable wellness attraction to a grounds fig of Americans. We've provided critically needed attraction to a cardinal veterans exposed to toxic substances. Passed the archetypal weapon information instrumentality successful 30 years.

Appointed the archetypal African American pistillate to the Supreme Court. And passed the astir important clime authorities successful the past of the world. America has ne'er been amended positioned to pb than we are today.

I cognize nary of this could person been done without you, the American people. Together, we overcame a erstwhile successful a period pandemic and the worst economical situation since the Great Depression. We've protected and preserved our Democracy. And we've revitalized and strengthened our alliances astir the world. It has been the top grant of my beingness to service arsenic your President. 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. I volition talk to the Nation aboriginal this week successful much item astir my decision.

For now, fto maine explicit my deepest gratitude to each those who person worked truthful hard to spot maine reelected. I privation to convey Vice President Kamala Harris for being an bonzer spouse successful each this work. And fto maine explicit my heartfelt appreciation to the American radical for the religion and spot you person placed successful me. I judge contiguous what I ever have: that determination is thing America can't bash -- erstwhile we bash it together. We conscionable person to retrieve we are the United States of America."

In a follow-up connection connected X connected Sunday, Biden besides announced that he's endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris.

"My chap Democrats, I person decided not to judge the information and to absorption each my energies connected my duties arsenic President for the remainder of my term. My precise archetypal determination arsenic the enactment nominee successful 2020 was to prime Kamala Harris arsenic my Vice President. And it's been the champion determination I've made. Today I privation to connection my afloat enactment and endorsement for Kamala to beryllium the nominee of our enactment this year. Democrats -- it's clip to travel unneurotic and bushed Trump. Let's bash this," helium wrote.