Valley Democrats and Republicans react to Biden dropping out of race

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Valley Democrats rushed to President Biden's broadside connected Sunday, applauding the president's determination to measurement speech and cancel his bid for a 2nd word successful the White House.

Marsha Conant, the First Vice Chair of the Fresno County Democratic Party, commended the president's announcement during an interrogation with Action News.

"I deliberation it's a substance of strength," she said. "I deliberation he's showing a batch of integrity to bash this astatine this time."

Republicans are piling on, raising questions astir Biden's quality to stay successful the presidency for six much months.

Former Valley Republican Representative Connie Conway has concerns.

"I don't cognize however helium plans connected doing this due to the fact that helium says he's not going to run, and yet he's gonna stay," Conway said. "He has a batch of carnal impairments. He has a batch of things going on."

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While erstwhile President Donald Trump has passionately criticized President Biden's record, ABC News reports that Trump's advisers had privately hoped President Biden would enactment successful the race.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has said Republicans volition apt spell to tribunal and situation the effort to regenerate Biden connected the Democratic summons truthful adjacent to an election.

"Our state is based connected laws and rules, and we request to travel them," Conway said. "If you enactment the footwear connected the different foot, I'm definite they'd bash the aforesaid happening to us."

The governmental back-and-forth comes arsenic Democrats are against the timepiece to unify and nominate a caller ticket. As immoderate telephone for an unfastened process, Biden has endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris.

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"She has a agelong governmental history," Conant said. "One that has been of leadership, again, integrity, and I judge she is the logical choice. I don't deliberation we tin person 15 radical throwing their hats successful the ringing now."

Harris enjoys sanction designation successful California from her clip arsenic Attorney General and Senator, and California delegates volition play a cardinal relation astatine the Democratic National Convention successful August.

The authorities volition nonstop astir 500 delegates, much than immoderate different state.

Additional leaders reactions to Biden dropping out

California Gov. Gavin Newsom -- 1 of Biden's apical surrogates and is often floated arsenic a imaginable replacement astatine the apical of the summons -- has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris connected X.

After calling for Biden to walk the torch earlier this week, Fresno Democratic Congressman Jim Costa praised Biden's determination successful a connection Sunday.

"President Biden acted, yet again, arsenic our nation's person erstwhile helium made 1 of the bravest and astir hard decisions of his vocation by putting the interests of the American radical first," Costa wrote. "We request to praise him for his bequest of of enactment and agelong database of accomplishments."

Congressman Vince Fong besides released a connection pursuing President's Biden determination Sunday, saying successful part:

"President Joe Biden's determination to not tally for reelection reflects what a batch of Americans know-our state cannot spend oregon endure different 4 years of Biden-Harris policies. Every American tin empirically comparison 2 presidencies broadside by side, and determination is nary uncertainty that Americans were fundamentally amended disconnected nether President Trump."

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