‘Things got moving so quickly’: Biden explains why he didn’t pass the torch sooner
He also announced he would take to the campaign trail to help Vice President Kamala Harris.
President Joe Biden called himself a “transition president” in his first interview after dropping out of the race, saying he exited because of fears within his party that he could cost Democrats seats in Congress.
In a pre-recorded interview that aired on “CBS Sunday Morning” with Robert Costa, Biden said he exited the race because he feared being a “distraction” for down-ballot candidates — and specifically name-dropped Nancy Pelosi.
“What happened was a number of my Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate thought that I was gonna hurt them in the races. And I was concerned if I stayed in the race, that would be the topic,” Biden said, adding that he expected to face questions about Pelosi’s role. “I thought it’d be a real distraction.”
The president said it was this — combined with his belief that he was a “transition president” — that ultimately helped him make his decision to end his reelection bid. It came after a disastrous debate performance triggered dozens of Democrats to call on Biden to pass the torch, especially as he dipped in the polls against former President Donald Trump.
“When I ran the first time, I thought of myself as being a transition president. I can’t even say how old I am. It’s hard for me to get it outta my mouth,” Biden said. “But things got moving so quickly, it — didn’t happen.”
He also announced a campaign tour in Pennsylvania with Gov. Josh Shapiro, who was on Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate shortlist.
Joe Biden is the best president of my lifetime. He showed a lot of strength here.
yeah this was one of the rare good surprised in the millenium.
We're you born since Obama left office?
I would be starting from Reagan. I think Biden has done a better job than Obama.
Biden never bombed a doctors without borders hospital.
Uhhh but he is currently funding a genocide with full support.
The civilian death toll in Gaza is about on par with how many the US killed in Afghanistan under Obama. However, Biden isn't personally signing off on every drone strike, so as gross as it feels to try and make an objective comparison between these civilian crisises, I gotta go with Obama for the bigger bastard award.
I really do not think that history will look back fondly on America funding a genocide.
And you believe history will look back fondly on invading Afghanistan for no real reason and drone striking everything that moved for 20 years?
Lol no. If anyone survives all of this, history isn't going to be kind to us about pretty much anything we've done since WW2.
Then I would suggest reading some American history, the nation was build upon a foundation of native corpses.
46000 Afghani civilians died in total. Israel has done four times as much as that in 10 months, all funded and signed off by Biden.
Did you read the Lancet study?
Nah he just gives money to Israel so they can bomb every hospital, school, and an entire people off the face of the planet.
And then says he is disappointed
And we're comparing him to Obama, who funded the civilian deaths in Afghanistan and signed off on them personally and was in a position to end the whole thing rather than just pull funding from it. Obama is the worst person of the two.
Biden is entirely in the position to end things by just not supplying them weapons and money every damn week
Israel isn't reliant on our weapons. We could cut funding tomorrow and it's not going to end this. Nothing we could do would end this short of declaring war on Israel ourselves.
....? Where the fuck do you think they get their weapons? Why do you think the US has been approving billions of dollars of weapons sales to Israel per week for 10 months?
If the US stopped sending weapons Israel would have a week or two max of bombing left, using AMERICAN bombs
You're just blatantly incorrext
They buy some from the US, and they are also the 8th largest weapons manufacturer/exporter in the world.
Are you laboring under the delusion that nobody else in the world makes and sells weapons? What kind of American exceptionalist bullshit is that?
...followed by an indefinite amount of time using German, Chinese, French, Italian, English, and DOMESTICLY PRODUCED bombs
If the US stopped supplying Israel so would the others pretty fast
England has already started pulling back They don't get Chinese bombs
Israel does make weapons yes, but nowhere close to the level that the US does.
Again, the US has fully financed this genocide. If Israel could just make their own bombs at this rate they would not be getting billions every week from the US to buy US bombs
What exactly are you basing this on?
Israel has the 15th highest military budget in the world. Palestine is 1/3rd the size of Vermont.They're perfectly capable of grinding it into dust with or without US involvement. Stop pulling "facts" out of your ass.