Photo: Saul Loeb Agence France-Presse Just recovered from COVID and coming out of a week of confinement, Joe Biden will explain why he, on Sunday, through a simple letter published on X, announced that he would ultimately not run for a second term.
Julie Chabanas – Agence France-Presse and Camille Camdessus – Agence France-Presse in Washington
Posted at 4:31 p.m.
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Is it because he feels too old ? That he is now convinced he cannot win against Trump ? Joe Biden will speak about the reasons which led him to withdraw of the presidential race and to pass the torch to Kamala Harris during a solemn address on Wednesday.
The Democratic president chose a prime time, 8 p.m., to address Americans on one of the greatest political upheavals in the country's modern history.
Just recovered from COVID and a week out confinement, the octogenarian leader will explain why he, on Sunday, through a simple letter published on His Vice President Kamala Harris replaced him.
“Tonight, our president will address the country about withdrawing his candidacy, and he will speak not only about the extraordinary work he has done, but also about his work in the next six months,” she said Wednesday in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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Joe Biden's speech will be given from the Oval Office of the White House. It will undoubtedly be one of the most important when the time comes for his assessment.
The health of the 81-year-old Democrat is obviously in all minds, since it was concerns about this that pushed his camp to call on him to leave the race.
Kamala Harris is running “for the future”
Kamala Harris, with a lot of support, is now almost guaranteed to win the nomination in August and become the candidate Democrat for the November 5 presidential election.
“I believe we are faced with a choice between two different visions for our nation, one oriented towards the future, the other towards the past,” proclaimed the vice-president on Wednesday.
“With your support, I am fighting for the future of our country” , she said.
The fifty-year-old also warned against the “Project 2025”, a program of nearly 900 pages shaped by an influential circle of conservative thinking, and which takes up many ideas put forward by Donald Trump. The former president, however, claimed to disagree with this text.
“Project 2025” is, denounced Kamala Harris, “a plan to return America to a dark past”.
The independent organization Vote.org, which assists voters in their registration on the lists, recorded 38,500 registrations in the two days following Joe Biden's withdrawal, most from people under the age of 35, reports Politico.
Which is the highest number of registrations since the start of the campaign, even beating the record from March, when singer Taylor Swift encouraged her fans to go to this site to find their office. vote.
Trump plows the field
The Republican candidate, Donald Trump, continues to survey the electoral terrain, capitalizing on the unifying effect of his party's convention in Milwaukee which officially inducted him as candidate last Thursday.
He will hold a campaign rally Wednesday evening in North Carolina before addressing an ultraconservative youth association Friday in Florida.
The septuagenarian s will then fly to Minnesota, a state in the Great Lakes region, to campaign with his new running mate, J.D. Vance.
Donald Trump savored for four days the spectacle of a Republican Party in perfect working order behind its third candidacy for the White House.
But the former president is now obliged to review entire sections of his electoral strategy, which until now has largely focused on presenting himself as an energetic leader in the face of a declining Joe Biden.
The Republican candidate has, however, already committed to debating with Kamala Harris, and assured that it would be “easier” to win against her in November.
The few polls published since the vice-president entered the race are mixed, placing the two candidates neck and neck.