Joe Biden Tells ‘CBS Sunday Morning’ That He Thought Staying In 2024 Race Would Be “A Real Distraction” To Effort To Defeat Donald Trump
deadline.comIn his first sit down interview since stepping aside in the 2024 presidential race, President Joe Biden said that he concluded that staying in the contest would prove to be a “real distraction,” citing the comments of Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill who feared he would drag down other candidates.
Speaking to Robert Costa for an interview for CBS Sunday Morning, Biden said that the presidential race “would have been down the wire, but what happened was a number of my Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate thought that I was going to hurt them in the races, and I was concerned if I stayed in the race, that would be the topic you’d be interviewing me about. ‘Why did Nancy Pelosi say…?
Why did someone?’ And I thought it’d be a real distraction.” Biden added that when he ran in 2020, “I thought of myself as being a transition president.
I can’t even say how old I am. It’s hard for me to get it out of my mouth, but things got moving so quickly, it didn’t happen.
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