Biden announces he will not run for president in 2024, ending his potential rematch with Trump.

After facing criticism from his colleagues, donors, and Hollywood stars following a poor debate performance, President Biden has decided to suspend his 2024 re-election campaign.

As more Democrat lawmakers publicly urged Biden to step down and the party's leadership reportedly tried to convince him he couldn't win in November's general election against Trump, who won the 2024 GOP nomination, an unprecedented announcement was made.

"Biden wrote in a public letter that it has been the greatest honor of his life to serve as president. Although he had planned to seek reelection, he believes it is in the best interests of his party and the country for him to step down and focus solely on fulfilling his duties as president for the remainder of his term."

Biden said he will formally address the nation later this week.

On Wednesday, it was revealed that Biden had been diagnosed with COVID-19, which came after several TV interviews and campaign appearances where he stated he was staying in the race. Despite this, his interviews did not reassure supporters and gave critics, including those on the left, more evidence that he was no longer capable of performing his duties.

Biden demonstrated his fitness to continue his presidency by delivering a strong welcome address to world leaders at the NATO summit in Washington D.C.

After House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer endorsed his campaign, it appeared that Biden could withstand the pressure to withdraw from the race.

Biden, known for his tendency to make mistakes, continued to stumble. At the NATO summit, he made a glaring error by referring to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as "Putin," mistakenly name-checking Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose invasion of Zelenskyy's Ukraine has caused more than two years of war.

Last weekend, the top political story was whether Biden would continue his campaign.

The attempted assassination of Trump and his naming of Sen. JD Vance as his running mate at the Republican National Convention temporarily paused the excitement surrounding Biden.

The call by Rep. Adam Schiff, the Democratic Senate nominee in California, for Biden to end his campaign, along with reports of top Democrats such as Schumer, Jeffries, and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi having conversations with Biden, reignited the political crisis for the president.

During the most challenging phase of his campaign for a second term, Biden made a surprising announcement. After his stumbling performance and uncomfortable responses were exposed to the public during the June presidential debate with Trump in Atlanta, doubts about his ability to lead the Democratic Party's 2024 ticket began to surface.

The poor performance of the president's party led to widespread panic and calls for Biden to step aside as the party's 2024 standard-bearer.

An increasing number of House Democrats publicly urged Biden to end his re-election bid as he struggled to regain his footing.

In the aftermath of the debate fiasco, Biden held a meeting with anxious Democrats, including governors and congressional leaders, and also made calls, as per campaign sources.

Last week, Biden began his campaign against Trump by sending a letter to congressional Democrats, declaring his commitment to defeating him in November. He also urged lawmakers to cease the debate and stop calling for his withdrawal, stating that such actions only aided Trump.

Biden gained the support of members of the Congressional Black and Hispanic Caucuses through a call with them.

Despite some hesitation among Democrat lawmakers, they met behind closed doors to reach a consensus and support the president.

For days, the White House and the Biden campaign, as well as the president himself, stated that Biden had no intention of withdrawing from the presidential race.

Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, stated that the president had no intention of withdrawing from the race.

The principal deputy Biden campaign manager, Quentin Fulks, stressed that "the president is running to win the race. He is the Democratic nominee."

During a rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, on the day following the presidential debate, Biden acknowledged his age by stating, "It's evident that I am not a young man."

""I don't walk, speak, or debate as smoothly as I used to, but I know what I know. I know how to tell the truth, distinguish right from wrong, and do this job. I also know how to get things done and, like millions of Americans, how to get back up when knocked down," Biden stated."

The president stated that he would not be running again in 2024 unless he truly believed he could excel in the job.

Biden's approval ratings against Trump began to decline as age concerns grew.

The president's surprise announcement ends his 2024 presidential campaign, which began in April of the previous year.

The end of a 50-year career in national politics is signaled by the rewriting of the input sentence.

Biden served as a senator for Delaware for nearly four decades, where he drafted and passed significant legislation such as the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act and the Violence Against Women Act. He also chaired the Senate Foreign Relations and Judiciary committees and oversaw six Supreme Court confirmation hearings.

He also ran unsuccessfully for the 1988 and 2008 Democratic presidential nominations.

In the 2008 election, Obama selected Biden as his running mate, and they won. Biden served as Vice President for eight years. Although Biden considered running for president in 2016, he ultimately decided against it after losing his son, Beau, to brain cancer. The party then focused on Clinton's candidacy.

In 2020, Biden ran for the Democratic nomination and won the presidency after a landslide victory in the South Carolina primary. Despite early dismal finishes in the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary, Biden turned his campaign around and ultimately defeated Trump.

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