The president talked about his emotional decision to leave the race and his plans to campaign for the Harris-Walz ticket in the battleground state of Pennsylvania.

In his first sit-down interview since dropping his 2024 campaign, President Joe Biden told CBS News reporter Robert Costa that he bowed out because he feared being a distraction in the Democrats’ efforts to defeat Republican nominee Donald Trump. Their discussion, which aired on CBS Sunday Morning, touched on that infamous presidential debate, Biden’s plans for the rest of his campaign, and what another Trump presidency could look like.

“Although it’s a great honor being president, I think I have an obligation to the country,” Biden said. “The most important thing,” he continued, is “we must, we must, we must defeat Trump.”

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    4 months ago

    Funny how he used to say that he decided to run again and then insist on not stepping aside for the exact reason he’s now giving for making the (correct and beneficial to the world) decision to bow to pressure from the rich donors and thus Nancy Pelosi to stand down.

    It’s almost like he’s a notoriously dishonest and very vain old man trying to save face after having lost a power struggle…

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      4 months ago

      Or a human being and a leader that is capable of change and sacrifice in the name of something bigger.

      Whichever.

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        Nah, he was pushed out.

        For the month that he stubbornly refused to withdraw, you guys told us that he was doing the right thing and anyone who said otherwise wanted Trump to win.

        Then when he was forced by major donors and their chief enforcer Pelosi, THAT was the best course of actions to avoid another Trump presidency (true) that he decided on all of his own (extremely obviously false) because he’s a heroically self-sacrifying hero (gimme a break).

        No matter what he does, you fanboys and fangirls say it’s the only right thing to do and that it was all his idea. It’s eerily reminiscent of the MAGA cult in its obsequiousness.