(The Center Square) – President Joe Biden said in an address to the nation Wednesday night that he would finish his term in office but “pass the torch” to the next generation, namely Vice President Kamala Harris.
Biden said he set his personal ambition aside to “save our Democracy.”
“So I have decided the best way forward is to pass the torch to a new generation,” Biden said in the address, looking well above and to the side of the camera. “That is the best way to unite our nation.”
Biden made the comments days after releasing a letter on his social media accounts that announced he would not seek reelection. In his remarks, though, he made clear he is not leaving the White House until his first term is done.
“Over the next six months, I will be focused on doing my job as president,” Biden said. “That means I will continue to lower costs for hard-working families, grow our economy. I will keep defending our personal freedoms and our civil rights, from the right to vote to the right to choose.”
Biden went on to condemn political violence and called for changes to the U.S. Supreme Court.
“I’m the first president of this century to report that the United States is not at war anywhere in the world,” Biden said. During Biden’s administration, however, two major international wars have broken out: Russia invaded Ukraine and Hamas terrorists invaded Israel, prompting the Jewish nation to respond. Both wars are ongoing.
Biden has endorsed Harris, who has already gathered Democratic donors, delegates and key endorsements. She is the presumed Democratic nominee and likely will face former President Donald Trump in November. Democrats will officially nominate their candidate at their convention in Chicago next month, but could do so beforehand in a virtual vote.
Biden experienced a medical incident in recent days that the White House said was COVID-19. Biden was not seen over the weekend, raising concerns and questions, especially since Sunday’s major announcement that he would drop out of the race was made via letter, not video or public remarks.
In the Sunday letter, though, Biden promised to give more details later in the week. Mostly, though, Biden spent Wednesday’s address reminding Americans of his record and wins while in office.
He went on to praise Harris, calling her a great leader and warning Americans against voting for Trump, though never using his name.
“I’ve given my heart and my soul to our nation, like so many others,” Biden said.
“The great thing about America is here, kings and dictators do not rule,” Biden continued. “The people do. History is in your hands. The power is in your hands. The idea of America lies in your hands.”
Biden’s handoff to Harris came after several brutal weeks for his campaign. Biden, who already faced ongoing questions about his mental fitness, had a disastrous debate with Trump at the end of June.
After that debate, donors and elected Democrats began calling on Biden to leave the race, saying he could not beat Trump.
A near-fatal assassination attempt against Trump further rallied support for the Republican presidential nominee, who was already leading Biden in national and most swing state polling.
Biden refused for weeks to step aside as more and more Democrats called for him to leave the race, but over the weekend, he relented.
Meanwhile, Republicans have continued to press Biden, arguing that if he is not fit to run for reelection, he is not fit to remain president.
“Does Lyin’ Kamala Harris think Joe Biden is fit to run the U.S.A. for the next six months?” Trump said in a statement. “She must answer the question. Now it appears Joe is delegating his Presidential Authority to unelected Washington Bureaucrats! He doesn’t even trust his Vice President. WHO IS RUNNING THE COUNTRY?”
Trump’s Vice Presidential pick, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, called on Biden to resign over the weekend.
“If Joe Biden ends his reelection campaign, how can he justify remaining President?” Vance wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Sunday. “Not running for reelection would be a clear admission that President Trump was right all along about Biden not being mentally fit enough to serve as Commander-in-Chief. There is no middle ground.”
The Torch Joe passes to Kamala has been blown out by Hurricane Kamala alone, more times than the eternal flame at JFK’s Grave located in Robert E Lee’s old front yard on the Potomac, now turned into Arlington National Cemetery. Joe may try to finish his term but WE THE PEOPLE are not finished with exposing his crimes and the sources of his purloined family wealth, most of which was socially redistributed from WE THE PEOPLE who once owned it and will own it again once we reclaim the Biden misued American power and Joe is out of office and can no longer use our Justice Department to cover his crimes.
WE need to save democracy.. WHO CARES WHO YOU ALL VOTED FOR< we are installing Kamala…
He might as well “Pass the Torch”….
He’s already burned everything to the ground.
Becareful who you pass lit torches to,,,,they may have been acting like of poof of political passed gas!
The torch wasn’t passed, it was STOLEN.
Biden said he set his personal ambition aside to “save our Democracy.”
Yea, they’ve been doing that a lot lately…. in their sad pathetic minds.
bumbling blabbing biden he is a legend in his feeble little brain.
this administration is not i repeat not loaded with the best people america has to offer it is a woke socialist time bomb
and if kameltoe wins it will explode on the american people like napalm.
Indeed, Joe is a hero in his own mind, and only a miniscule gray matter mind like Kamala’s would jump on board the Crippled Camel of the Biden lost caravan administration, and think she eventually would not get humped by them. Her time and her expedience usefulness is running short, and they will jettison this political flotsam and Jetsom as soon as a larger, better tentacled squid or octopus can be found to replace her and those bottom feeders of the Biden administration, who failed to deliver the power and deliver the goods to the master puppeteers who formerly controlled their Kamala-like sock-puppet mouths via a full fist up their backside. No wonder guys like sock-puppet Joe himself can no longer walk in a straight line across a stage. Where trump raises a fist in the air to defy evil. People like Joe just await the next usual fisting from the real people who control his mind, who are also the same people who want to misdirect your children that this is some kind of legitimate way to make love.
Part of me fears that’s what they want. UTTER ANARCHY leading to an actual 2nd civil war, SO THEY CAN PUSH for “UN laws/peacekeepers” to come in, and try to seize everyones firearms.
“I will keep defending our personal freedoms (attack Christians)
and our civil rights (Illegal’s rights),
from the right to vote (Illegals registered to vote)
to the right to choose. (abortion on demand, for any reason up to the point of birth and beyond.)”
Maybe that’s why Biden loves ice cream. He’s been passing torches.
There were 2 things on the news that Biden want to get done first thing was Federal prison Overhaul Which I can tell you means releasing violent criminals back on the streets. Second thing he wanted to do Redo the supreme court He wants to add justices and get rid of 2 republicans On the supreme court.