Biden’s decision to drop out crystallized Sunday. His staff knew one minute before the public did
WASHINGTON (AP) — It was never President Joe Biden’s intention to leave the race. Up until he decided to step aside Sunday, he was all in. His campaign was planning fundraisers and events and setting up travel over the next few weeks. But even as Biden was publicly dug in and insisting he was staying in the race, he was quietly reflecting on the disaster of the past few weeks, on the past three years of his presidency and on the scope of his half-century career in politics. In the end, it was the president’s decision alone, and he made it quietly, from his home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
Harris looks to lock up the Democratic nomination after Biden steps aside, reordering the 2024 race
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Joe Manchin says he won’t compete with Vice President Kamala Harris for the Democratic presidential nomination now that President Joe Biden has left the race. The West Virginia senator left the Democratic Party this year but had considered re-registering to vie for the nomination against Harris. But Manchin told CBS News on Monday he would not be a candidate. Additional endorsements Monday have left a dwindling list of potential rivals to Harris, who’s still the only candidate. Harris is moving swiftly to secure Democratic delegates behind her White House campaign since Biden stepped aside Sunday amid concerns from within their own party he’d be unable to defeat Republican Donald Trump.
Harris gets a chance to press reset on the 2024 race against Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) — This year’s presidential race was supposed to be a rematch between two older white men, Joe Biden and Donald Trump. That’s no longer the case after Sunday, when Biden ended his Democratic reelection bid and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris. The decision will reshape the politics of race, age and gender in the campaign. Most notably, Trump will no longer be the second oldest candidate in the race but the oldest. And after years of using racist, sexist and nativist rhetoric, the Republican ex-president will most likely be facing off against a woman of color who is the daughter of immigrants.
Trump’s campaign quickly pivots to Harris after Biden announces decision to leave the race
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s campaign has spent the last year-and-a-half viciously attacking Joe Biden, ridiculing his policies, mocking his fumbles and relishing a rematch they felt they were winning. But they have also spent weeks preparing for the possibility that Biden might exit the race, readying a bevy of attacks against Vice President Kamala Harris that they unleashed as soon as Biden made his stunning announcement Sunday that he would step aside. Biden soon after endorsed Harris, who was quickly winning support from Democrats to be the party’s nominee. The shakeup less than four months before Election Day lays out new challenges for Trump’s team, which had until recently been focused on contrasting the former president’s vigor and mental acuity with Biden’s.
Takeaways from a day that fundamentally changed the presidential race
President Joe Biden’s abrupt decision to bow out of the presidential race and endorse Vice President Kamala Harris to be the Democratic candidate against former President Donald Trump has caused a political earthquake. It also changes the contours of a presidential race — which most voters said they did not want to see — that has seemed rigidly set for more than a year. Since Biden’s disastrous debate in June, the Democratic party has been in disarray. But on Sunday, Democrats started lining up behind Harris. Dozens of members of Congress and senators endorsed her.
Biden’s withdrawal injects uncertainty into wars, trade disputes and other foreign policy challenges
Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the U.S. presidential race injects greater uncertainty into the world at a time when Western leaders are grappling with wars in Ukraine and Gaza, a more assertive China in Asia and the rise of the far right in Europe. During a five-decade career in politics, Biden developed extensive personal relationships with multiple foreign leaders that none of the potential replacements on the Democratic ticket can match. The scope of foreign policy challenges facing the next U.S. president makes clear how consequential what happens in Washington is for the rest of the planet.
Israel’s Netanyahu walks political tightrope on Washington trip following Biden’s exit from race
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is headed to Washington, leaving behind a brutal war to make a politically precarious speech before a joint session of Congress. The departure Monday comes at a time of great uncertainty following U.S. President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the presidential race. With efforts ongoing to bring about a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, rising concerns of the war spreading to Lebanon and Yemen, and the U.S. in the midst of a dizzying election campaign, Netanyahu’s speech has the potential to cause disarray on both sides of the ocean. The risks only increased with Biden’s decision Sunday to drop out of the race.
Israel orders evacuation of part of Gaza humanitarian zone as war’s toll passes 39,000 Palestinians
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military has ordered the evacuation of part of a crowded area in Gaza it has designated a humanitarian zone. The military says Hamas militants have embedded themselves in the area and civilians should evacuate the zone’s eastern part. The announcement came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was traveling to the United States to meet with President Joe Biden and address Congress to make his case for the nine-month war against Hamas while cease-fire negotiations continue. Meanwhile, Gaza’s Health Ministry says new Israeli airstrikes have sent the death toll in the war to over 39,000 Palestinians.
Delta Air Lines says cancellations continue as it tries to restore operations after tech outage
NEW YORK (AP) — Airlines, including Delta Air Lines, continued to struggle to restore operations two days after a faulty software update caused technological havoc worldwide and resulted in several carriers grounding flights. Delta Chief Executive Ed Bastian said in a statement Sunday that flight cancellations continued as the airline tried to recover its systems and restore operations. He noted that the pause in Delta’s operations resulted in more than 3,500 Delta and Delta Connection scrubbed flights. Delta has been offering waivers to affected customers.
Biden’s decision to drop out leaves Democrats across the country relieved and looking toward future
HARPER WOODS, Mich. (AP) — Voters nationwide reacted with relief and hope to news that President Joe Biden would drop his reelection bid. Biden announced his decision to withdraw from the race for the Democratic nomination in a public letter on Sunday and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as his successor. While some voters expressed gratitude for Biden stepping aside and quickly rallied behind Harris, others indicated preferences for a different candidate, such as Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Recent AP-NORC polling revealed that nearly two-thirds of Democrats felt Biden should withdraw from the presidential race, while a majority believe Harris would perform well in the top slot.
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