‘It’s in the most effective curiosity of my occasion and the nation for me to face down,’ the US president writes.
The next is the letter from United States President Joe Biden, saying he’ll now not run for re-election in November:
“My Fellow Individuals,
Over the previous three and a half years, we’ve made nice progress as a Nation.
Immediately, America has the strongest financial system on this planet. We’ve made historic investments in rebuilding our Nation, in reducing prescription drug prices for seniors, and in increasing reasonably priced well being care to a document variety of Individuals. We’ve supplied critically wanted care to one million veterans uncovered to poisonous substances. Handed the primary gun security regulation in 30 years. Appointed the primary African American lady to the Supreme Courtroom. And handed essentially the most important local weather laws within the historical past of the world. America has by no means been higher positioned to steer than we’re as we speak.
I do know none of this might have been completed with out you, the American individuals. Collectively, we overcame a as soon as in a century pandemic and the worst financial disaster because the Nice Melancholy. We’ve protected and preserved our Democracy. And we’ve revitalized and strengthened our alliances world wide.
It has been the best honor of my life to function your President. And whereas it has been my intention to hunt reelection, I imagine it’s in the most effective curiosity of my occasion and the nation for me to face down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the rest of my time period.
I’ll communicate to the Nation later this week in additional element about my determination.
For now, let me specific my deepest gratitude to all those that have labored so laborious to see me reelected. I need to thank Vice President Kamala Harris for being a rare associate in all this work. And let me specific my heartfelt appreciation to the American individuals for the religion and belief you have got positioned in me.
I imagine as we speak what I all the time have: that there’s nothing America can’t do — once we do it collectively. We simply have to recollect we’re the USA of America.”
– Joe Biden
