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US President Joe Biden rides his bicycle through Gordons Pond State Park in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. (Image: AFP)
Biden said that when he became US president, he was a transitional president.
US President Joe Biden acknowledged that members of the Democratic Party believe that a Biden candidacy for the White House would damage their chances of winning the election.
He also pointed out that Nancy Pelosi may have been one of the people who pushed Democrats to ask Biden to drop out of the race for the White House.
“A number of my Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate thought I was going to hurt them in the campaign. And I was worried that if I stayed in the race, that would be the issue – they would interview me about why Nancy Pelosi said (something) … and I thought that would be a real distraction,” Biden said. CBS News Sunday Morning in his first interview since dropping out of the race for the White House.
Biden had endorsed US Vice President Kamala Harris shortly after she dropped out of the race for the White House.
He said the main priority of the election was to “maintain this democracy,” while claiming his predecessor, Donald Trump, was a threat to the United States.
Biden said he was proud of his record on jobs, investment and post-Covid recovery – and promised to campaign hard for Vice President Kamala Harris, who succeeded him in the election.
“I will do whatever Kamala thinks is possible to best help,” he said.
Democrats’ hopes of victory have soared since Biden’s withdrawal, as Harris enjoys a surge in support that has put Trump and Republicans under pressure.
The outgoing president said that when he won the 2020 election, he expected to serve only one term, but was then persuaded to run for a second term.
“I saw myself as an interim president – I can’t even say how old I am. It’s hard for me to say that – but things moved so quickly that it didn’t happen,” he told CBS’s Robert Costa.
