By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent Worthy News
WASHINGTON (Worthy News) – The U.S. Democratic Party moved into unchartered territory on Monday after frail President Joe Biden officially dropped out of the presidential race.
The unprecedented announcement, delivered less than four months before the election, immediately upended a campaign both political parties viewed as the most consequential in generations.
The president — intent on serving out the remainder of his term in office — quickly endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to take on former President Donald J. Trump, who last week survived an assassination attempt and is leading in the polls.
He encouraged his party to unite behind her, making her the party’s instant favorite for the nomination at its August convention in Chicago.
With the eyes of America and the world on the presumptive presidential nominee, Harris’s schedule includes an event on the South Lawn of the White House on Monday with sports teams from across the country that won NCAA championships this year.
She was planning to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit to Washington later this week, and talks were now raising status with her attempting to become the next commander-in-chief.
Harris also has a previously scheduled campaign swing to Milwaukee on Tuesday, Worthy News monitored.
DECISION MAKING
Yet questions surrounded Biden’s decision-making process. Well-informed sources said that at 1.45 p.m. local time on Sunday, President Biden’s senior staff was notified that he was stepping away from the 2024 race. A minute later, that message was made public.
Biden never intended to leave the race until he decided to step aside Sunday; “he was all in,” sources said.
Yet it was the president’s decision alone, and he made it quietly, from his vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, sick with COVID-19, the first lady with him as he talked it through with a small circle of people who have been with him for decades, Worthy News learned.
The Louisiana delegation to the Democratic National Convention was among those endorsing Harris after a virtual meeting in which it held a vote in which Harris won an “overwhelming majority”
The Louisiana Democratic Party Chair Randal Gaines, who also chairs the Louisiana delegation to the convention, said: “We are grateful to President Joe Biden for his remarkable leadership, and we are committed to honoring his legacy by working tirelessly this fall to keep the White House in Democratic hands.”
Gaines added: “I am proud to share that Louisiana’s Democratic delegates will join President Biden in endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris as our nominee. It’s time we come together, and by throwing our full support behind her, we can beat Donald Trump again and continue Joe Biden’s legacy of accomplishments and progress for our country. We look forward to a productive, energizing, and historic convention in which we nominate the first black woman as our Democratic nominee.”
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