Biden gives up campaign but holds onto nuclear codes
The decision of President Biden to end his presidential campaign and remain in the White House while still holding the position has raised serious questions as to whether he should retain his powers.
In an open letter, Mr. Biden said he would drop out to “focus solely on fulfilling my duties as president for the remainder of my term.” In an open message, Mr. Biden announced that he would withdraw from the race to “focus exclusively on fulfilling my duties of president for the rest of my term.”
Republicans said this is an unsustainable balance: If he’s too incompetent to run a campaign, then he cannot lead the country from the White House.
“If Joe Biden was not qualified to run for President, he would not be able to serve as President.” “He must resign immediately”, said House Speaker Mike Johnson. A Louisiana Republican, Johnson is the second in line for presidential succession after Vice President Kamala Harris. “Nov. “Nov.
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Some Republicans have a more direct approach to the subject.
Richard Hudson, Chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, said that if the president was mentally unfit for campaigning, he would be mentally unfit if he had the nuclear codes.
Biden will have to make a number of decisions, including how Ukraine could use U.S. assistance in Russia to launch an attack and what kind of aid to give Israel to fight Hamas.
Biden had hoped to have a meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister during his trip to the U.S. this week to address Congress. The president is still recovering from COVID-19.
It is also important that the president and Congress work together on the annual budget bills due by September 30.
Some of Mr. Biden’s supporters expressed their hope on social media that he would be a president free from politics and willing to move further left. Some of Mr. Biden’s supporters pointed to the recent Supreme Court ruling regarding presidential immunity to show how Mr. Biden could now act without worrying about political consequences.
The White House did not respond to a question Sunday about how President Biden would handle his current situation. However, Mr. Biden’s campaign recently claimed that the presidency was a committee-based operation with Jill Biden and Ms. Harris taking a prominent role in determining the direction.
Since Wednesday, Mr. Biden is recovering from the coronavirus.
In American politics, it’s not uncommon to have a lame-duck president. There have been cases where presidents withdrew from reelection campaigns due to party division.
This was President B. Lyndon Johnson’s fate in 1968.
Mr. Biden is the only one who has been thrown out by his own party, after the primary election process was completed and in light of questions about mental fitness.
Donald Trump’s campaign said that it created an impossible situation.
Joe Biden is too mentally impaired to run for president and remain in the White House. Biden’s cognitive decline is a threat to national security and poses a danger to men, women, and children in the United States, according senior aides Chris LaCivita, and Susie Wiles.
Democrats did not see any tension in the decision of Mr. Biden.
Earl Blumenauer, Oregon Democrat, said: “He made the correct decision to spend his remaining presidency implementing landmark achievements instead of fighting a political campaign against Donald Trump.” “I’m encouraged that President Biden is able to devote his full time and attention to this project.”
Many Democrats praised Mr. Biden for his “selfless decision” and said that he put the defeat of Mr. Trump ahead of his desire to win a second term.
Many of these Democrats see the issue as personal. They feared that Mr. Biden’s loss in an electoral landslide would give control of the Senate to Republicans and increase majorities in House.
Since months, Mr. Biden’s mental acuity was questioned. But it was the rough performance he gave in a debate last month that started to knock down the dominoes of his five-decade career as a politician.
Republicans have promised to grill Democrats about the White House’s role in allowing Mr. Biden to be so precarious. The party indicated Sunday that Ms. Harris will be the one to answer these questions.
“She is responsible for all these failures and she lied about Biden’s capacity to think for almost four years, leaving the country with a president that can’t perform the job,” said Sen. J.D. Vance, newly-minted Republican Vice Presidential nominee, made the statement on social media.
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