The president talked about his emotional decision to leave the race and his plans to campaign for the Harris-Walz ticket in the battleground state of Pennsylvania.
In his first sit-down interview since dropping his 2024 campaign, President Joe Biden told CBS News reporter Robert Costa that he bowed out because he feared being a distraction in the Democrats’ efforts to defeat Republican nominee Donald Trump. Their discussion, which aired on CBS Sunday Morning, touched on that infamous presidential debate, Biden’s plans for the rest of his campaign, and what another Trump presidency could look like.
“Although it’s a great honor being president, I think I have an obligation to the country,” Biden said. “The most important thing,” he continued, is “we must, we must, we must defeat Trump.”
Less than two weeks before he dropped out, he wrote an open letter to congressional democrats in which he wrote:
Unless this was all part of an elaborate hoax, it’s clear he had no intention of dropping out at that time.
Nothing but respect for anyone that old who can change their mind when they’re wrong. It’s easy to fall into a rut of stubbornness.