the, the, this is the, the news live from berlin. joe biden withdraws from the us presidential race, leaving the democratic campaign in uncharted waters. the sitting president made the announcement on the social media platform x, and he would not be the democratic candidate to run against republicans. donald trump bite, and also endorsed as vice president, kamala harris. he urges his supporters to back her, making her the favor to win the democratic nomination at next month's party convention the . i'm here until the berlin. thank you very much for tuning in. joe biden is

withdrawing from the west presidential race. the 81 year old had been the presumptive democratic nominee, but he now says he will focus on fulfilling his duties as president for the remainder of his term bite, and has also endorsed vice president kamala harris to run against former president . donald trump. aiming to avoid further division among democrats. let's go straight to our g. w, washington bureau chief municipal. so after weeks of rumors and talks, it's finally happened to present, joe biden has dropped out of the 2024 election race. one of the reactions been like so far in washington now it was a sunday afternoon after the republican conventions last week. and then there was a, a, a, the nato summit here in washington just some days earlier. so, you know, that was a very intense news. so anyhow, i know this polish i'll exploded in the sunday sunday afternoon and of course many people i think relieved that this kind of long,

long waiting is over. others jumped in immediately as the j. the vans is the v p. pick off for president donald trump saying that a bite and should resign immediately if he would be not able to run for president again then to he also. and i'm putting here is not able to run the country for another a 6 months or so. so this will definitely be also uh, the bade which will be louder from the republican side, but was in the demo, democratic kind of a area of people all really i think mainly relieved. and now of course, trying to find out how is you just said proceeding this uncharted area was you said, say, is just had their relief among some democrats. but now the question of the hour is, who will replace your body as kamala harris, the next likely candidate, as well?

yes, uh, the president biden, uh, and endorsed her right away and she would be kind of the uh, the kind of nearest, the closest pick. i think one can say that she is very well known. you know, it's only like a how many days i wrote it down somewhere a $107.00 days or so until election day on november 5th. that's not really a long time to build up a new candidate who is not a well known to the american kind of people. and then there's also the big question about money because of the $96000000.00 or so, which are in biden's award. chest could be used by vice president, come on the harris. but if someone else would be picked as the presidential candidate, it might be actually difficult to get this money to use said money a to come paying for the white house. so many, many open questions and definitely a very exciting time here in the united states. now if democrats do decide to go

with a different candidate as next month's democratic convention, what the top contenders as well, you know, we so see how this plays out more and more governors also potential contender. so is those names who are like kind of in the orbit of potential. uh, a kind of presidential candidates are coming out now, and i'm sure that you will see them more and more of them over the course of the next couple of days. but you know, the main question really will be, is kind of the hair is really able to get the support of the big toner. so big money that really matters in this country and you have to run such a short, you know, the only so many, so few days left until the election day. so you need a lot of money to change the whole come paying a that's a, that's a question. and then of course, you also would need to over the need to be able to rally some well known

a democrats behind, or we shall see what happens over the next couple of days. and speaking of changing campaigns, you were just covering the republican convention. and of course, this announcement will change those plans or is likely to change the plans of the trump campaign. how do you think they'll pivot? now there's really also an interesting question about just media reports coming out of at a former president. donald trump is considering if he wants to debate a possible candidate, come on the harris, you know, he was supposed to candidate to debate and another present the presidential debate of president biden. but now everything is in turmoil, and may be coming to harris. it's on the tickets, the trump might not be willing to meet her. and one of these tv studios we shall see, you know, the whole debate of donald trump has been focused on the weakness of joe biden, on his age and him falling down the stairs. these images were showing that the

republican convention in milwaukee over and over again, and they of course, have to change that now. so that's definitely also shock in the republican come pain management, and i'm sure that they would have rather come pained or fault against joe biden. than possibly come to harris. right. i'm afraid we have to leave it there. that was due to be washington bureau chief in his pull reporting from us from washington. and as biden says, he will be focusing on fulfilling his duties as president for the remainder of his term. let's take a look now at the weeks that have light up to today's decision. inflation has, it was a moment that changed the trajectory of the 2020 for presidential campaign has increased. making sure that we're able to make every single solitary person eligible for what i've been able to do with the, with the coven, i should be with dealing with everything we have to do with a more,

if to finally be medicare. therefore, president joe biden called for an early one and one tv debate with donald trump. to dispel concerns about his age, we get to tony don't was a plan that backfired spectacular way. the total edition, as viewers watched bite and struggle with his answers and more side of questions about biden's fitness, had daughters campaign from the beginning in his public appearances in the us and abroad. the 81 year old appeared increasingly frail. like at last month's g 7, summit in italy, your job in the wake of biden's debate performance about his campaign and press team thought to don't play concerns. he had a cold and a bad night. i would not see this as an episode. i would see this is what it was and what we believe it to be, which is it was

a bad night. and he did on top of that, he had a cold biden's. every move was closely scrutinized. initially, he refused to devote out a letter. he said to democrat lawmakers failed to alleviate worries. pressure grew as high ranking democrats and donors publicly expressed reservations, including former house speaker, nancy, but most many praise bindings achievements which include major infrastructure spending, and restoring transatlantic partnerships. while at the same time concluding, that biden was no longer up to the job of stopping a 2nd to trump, the presidency. and the republican candidate for president donald trump has reacted on the social media platform. truth social, he wrote frequent joe biden was not fit to run for president and a certainly not fit to serve. and never was all those around him,

including his doctor and the media knew that he wasn't capable of being president. and it wasn't and of course it's not just politicians reacting to the news that joe biden is stepping down. but the american people as well here, some of them in the midwestern state of ohio. well, i think it's a good decision. i think you didn't have a chance to get his trump a too many people are concerned about his age, which i was still very happy. but he, i mean, look at what he's done to our world. i just, i think donald trump should have been back a long time ago. so i mean, it makes me really happy, even though he's out. would you have voted for joe if you were still in there? i would have i would have because simply because he can, there's certain things he can still do, but he can't campaign anymore. so i'm, i'm sad and a, he's a, he's a, he's

a true patriot for subbing down for more without joined by the deputies on rent off here in the studio. so brent bodies finally about 2 weeks of mounting pressure. what do you think actually causes him to finally take this step? well, what we do know is that people close to him have said reportedly said that the decision was made about 48 hours ago. but what happened between, let's say, friday evening and sunday evening. so your guess is as good as mine. what we do now is that for years we've been hearing grumblings within both parties about the questionable fitness of bite and for office and 24 days ago with the debate. debacle to just been getting louder and louder is going to snowball effect. now you've had more and more high level high ranking democrats come out either privately or publicly saying that he should step aside. and the donors as well had been threatening to freeze money. that normally would be automatically be going to him and you and i both know without money. there is no campaign in the united

states. but, i mean, let's go back for a 2nd. we've been hearing back into your in biden's initial run, he wanted to be a one term president. why did he stick around even when there was so many questions about his health and his fitness to serve? but everyone, if you were to ask people on the street about that, they would probably tell you that they understood that to me, that he was going to be a one term president, right? a bridge to the future. after the native 75th anniversary conference. he was asked by reporters at a press conference, this very question you ran as a bridge candidate. what has changed? and his answer was, our national security situation has become dire or more dire than it was 4 years ago. he said our politics would become more polarized, and he said the threats coming from china and russia are greater today, and they were 4 years ago that may well be true. but i don't think that that was a convincing argument. i think that most people would look at joe biden today,

and spite all the respect that they have would see a man who simply has not been able to see the riding on the wall. right. but when it comes to the writing on the wall, now he has said he wants to see his vice president succeed him as a democratic candidate. now, is this a foregone conclusion? is she did a fact to candidate or could we see a dark coast coming in now? is she she is not the leader? the eligibility of her nomination is may seem to be inevitable, but it's not just what she has to do with sources. tell us that in the last 12 hours she's been on the phone calling members of congress trying to drum up support . she knows that she has to get there's more than $4500.00 delegates votes at the democratic national convention next month. they have to vote for her. so she may seem like she would be the anointed one to follow a job either, but that is not a given. and we're talking about possible. other people who just go through this

list here of people who could possibly get the nomination. there's the governor in north carolina. roy cooper, there's the governor of pennsylvania. josh shapiro. i take that back, josh appear that is already said that he is not running. there's the senator, mark kelly from arizona, and there's given news from the governor of colorado. now, what would be the benefit of having a gubernatorial candid become your presidential candidate over having come with the hairs? it would be harder, according to pollsters. it would be harder for the republicans, i. e, donald trump, and jay to advance to blame a gubernatorial candidate for inflation for the border crisis for the us. not forcing an enter the more and you crave. these are all things that a president or vice president could be held accountable for. you can't hold a governor accountable for that. so all of these candidates, no one has come out and said that they want the job. but there's been silence to they haven't said that they're not interested. so it's still it's wide open. and if, when it comes to these candidates,

what do you think would the most um probably outcome. do you think we could see or taking a v p that is from them or the gubernatorial like torrell um, experience type of candidate or do you think we could be seen something completely different? do you think they'd be running against an open convention or are we talking about a combined or a the joint tickets? i think that anything is everything right now as possible because these are uncharted waters. we haven't really seen 8 situation exactly like this. and we've got 3 weeks until we get the democratic national convention going by. then if you talk to a democratic insiders, they're telling you that they want this thing clarified as soon as possible. and we can't forget, early voting it for the november presidential election begins and a couple of months in some states. so, i mean, you've got a very narrow, narrow window of opportunity for the democrats to pull a surprise out of their had someone that they think can defeat donald trump and do gardener and support them in your delegates, as well as the public. that's a tall order for any political party, or it definitely is

a tall order. and the selection campaign has been nothing if not surprising, that was due to these brand golf. joining me in the studio, but stick around, we'll be back with you in just a little bit of time. but 1st, let's take a closer look at vice president kamala harris. there has been great debate among democrats, whether she would be the strongest candidate against former president donald trump, but having been in biden's ticket and receiving powerful endorsements like that of former president bill clinton, she seemed to be the candidate to beat. kamala harris has already made history once by being the 1st female and the 1st black vice president of the united states. she was in no hurry to get rid of fighting, initially holding the line for him. after his disastrous debate performance. we believe in our president joe biden and we believe in what he stands for the soonest of this. oh,

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