Biden defends the decision to withdraw from the presidential election at the last minute. “It was difficult to leave”
Biden was criticized for withdrawing too late from the race for the second term. He left his vice president of Kamali Harris – who replaced him as a Democrats candidate – only a few months to conduct campaigns.
“I don't think it matters,” Biden said in an interview with the BBC on Wednesday, asked whether he should have been withdrawing his candidacy before.
Describing her presidency, Biden said that she was “so successful” that “it was difficult to say: now I'm going to give up.” “Everything happened so fast that it was very difficult to leave,” he added.
“The short campaign was at its price”
After a catastrophic performance in the debate against Trump in June, which he fueled and so growing concerns about his age and health, Biden faced the pressure of public opinion to withdraw from the election, Including the influential activist of the Democratic Party, Nancy Pelosi, former chairwoman of the House of Representatives.
Despite repeated assurances that he would not withdraw from the race, on July 21, only 106 days before the election, he announced that he would not apply for re -election. Thus, he became the first incumbent president who did it since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968.
In an interview with the BBC, he called the withdrawal of his candidacy “difficult”, but at the same time a “right” decision, adding that it would not have been “significant” if he did it earlier.
In November last year, representatives of the election staff Harris awarded in the American political podcast at Save America that They didn't have enough time to develop a strategy to defeat Trump.
“A short campaign had its price,” said David Plouffe, a senior adviser in the Harris presidential campaign.
