22nd July 2024, NewsOrient
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President of United States of America, Joe Biden, has ended his re-election campaign and endorsed Vice-President Kamala Harris to succeed him as the Democratic candidate ahead of the forthcoming American Presidential Election.

A report sourced from BBC says: “Mr Biden, 81, said in a Sunday written statement that it was the “greatest honour” to serve but his withdrawal was “in the best interest of my party and the country”.

The announcement caps a tumultuous period in US politics, which began with his sometimes incoherent debate performance against Donald Trump on 27 June. Mr Biden says he will remain president until January.

Ms Harris, 59, said that she was “honoured” to be endorsed, adding she would “earn and win this nomination” and unite the country against Trump.

“We have 107 days until election day,” she said. “Together, we will fight. And together, we will win.”

While Ms Harris has been picking up endorsements from many big figures in the party, she is yet to be officially nominated, and that may not happen until the Democratic National Convention in August.

A resurgent Trump meanwhile has pulled ahead in polling and was confirmed as Republican nominee at the party’s convention in Milwaukee this week, five days after surviving an assassination attempt.

In the wake of Mr Biden’s decision, he declared the President “was not fit to run… and is certainly not fit to serve”.

Other senior Republicans joined him in their criticism, and called on Mr Biden to leave the White House immediately, not just the Democratic candidacy.”

But NewsOrient gathered that Biden has said he would remain President until January 2025.

Meanwhile, top Democratic Party leaders, have praised Biden’s choice of Kamala Harris.

Kamala will have to square up with former President Donald Trump and Republicans eager to take over White House in Washington DC.

With the development, the campaigns and the days ahead the forthcoming American Presidential Election promise to be robust.

Can Trump utilize the sympathy that seems to trail the assassination attempt on him to win back America and return to the White House?

How easy will that task turn out to be, now that his major opponent is no longer Biden, but Vice President Kamala Harris, a woman of growing influence and still in her late 50s, whose supporters fondly call ‘Momala?

Observers of the campaigns for the coming elections are keen to see if the 59 years old Kamala, who blazed the trail as the first Black and South Asian Vice President of America, will also blaze most important trail of emerging the First Woman President of America? Can this gentle activist do it, when her major opponent is unconventional, hard fighter, Donald Trump?

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~ NewsOrient