‘It’s in the perfect curiosity of my celebration and the nation for me to face down,’ the US president writes.
The next is the letter from United States President Joe Biden, saying he’ll now not run for re-election in November:
“My Fellow Individuals,
Over the previous three and a half years, we now have made nice progress as a Nation.
At the moment, America has the strongest economic system on the earth. We’ve made historic investments in rebuilding our Nation, in reducing prescription drug prices for seniors, and in increasing reasonably priced well being care to a document variety of Individuals. We’ve supplied critically wanted care to 1,000,000 veterans uncovered to poisonous substances. Handed the primary gun security legislation in 30 years. Appointed the primary African American girl to the Supreme Court docket. And handed essentially the most vital local weather laws within the historical past of the world. America has by no means been higher positioned to steer than we’re at the moment.
I do know none of this might have been carried out with out you, the American individuals. Collectively, we overcame a as soon as in a century pandemic and the worst financial disaster because the Nice Despair. We’ve protected and preserved our Democracy. And we’ve revitalized and strengthened our alliances world wide.
It has been the best honor of my life to function your President. And whereas it has been my intention to hunt reelection, I consider it’s in the perfect curiosity of my celebration and the nation for me to face down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the rest of my time period.
I’ll converse to the Nation later this week in additional element about my determination.
For now, let me categorical my deepest gratitude to all those that have labored so arduous to see me reelected. I wish to thank Vice President Kamala Harris for being a rare associate in all this work. And let me categorical my heartfelt appreciation to the American individuals for the religion and belief you’ve positioned in me.
I consider at the moment what I at all times have: that there’s nothing America can’t do — after we do it collectively. We simply have to recollect we’re the USA of America.”
– Joe Biden