Steve Holland
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden had deliberate to stay within the 2024 presidential race as of Saturday night however advised senior staffers on Sunday afternoon that he would withdraw, an individual accustomed to the matter mentioned.
“The information final evening was that all the pieces was transferring full steam forward,” the unnamed supply advised Reuters. “Round 1:45 this afternoon: The president advised his senior workforce that he had modified his thoughts.”
The choice caught many White Home staffers off guard, with some shocked that the president made the announcement whereas recovering from the COVID-19 outbreak at his dwelling in Rehoboth Seaside, Delaware.
Biden, 81, has been coughing and has struggled all through the weekend with Democratic stress to drop him from the race.
He’s significantly irritated with former Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who Biden advisers imagine is orchestrating a stress marketing campaign to drive him out of workplace.
Hours earlier than the surprising information, the Biden marketing campaign denied experiences that he deliberate to withdraw.
“It is fallacious. I feel it is fallacious to proceed to attempt to stoke this narrative,” deputy marketing campaign supervisor Quentin Fulks advised MSNBC’s “Weekend” Sunday morning.
