{"id":2307607,"date":"2024-07-24T19:37:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T23:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-to-tell-primetime-audience-he-stepped-aside-to-unite-our-nation-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-07-24T19:40:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T23:40:13","slug":"biden-to-tell-primetime-audience-he-stepped-aside-to-unite-our-nation-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-to-tell-primetime-audience-he-stepped-aside-to-unite-our-nation-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden to tell primetime audience he stepped aside to &#8216;unite our nation&#8217; &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-to-tell-primetime-audience-he-stepped-aside-to-unite-our-nation-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2307607&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Ia posts this \u2063week.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You don&rsquo;t have to be a president \u2062or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-state-2024-race-shapes-up-as-candidates-vie-to-replace-katie-porter\/\" title=\"California&#039;s 2024 race intensifies as contenders compete for Katie Porter&#039;s seat.\">vice \u2063president<\/a> to be\u200d a leader. Any of you can be a leader,&rdquo; Biden is expected to tell Americans. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s in \u2064your hands. Let us restore the soul of America and take \u200ddemocracy, that&rsquo;s at risk, to a place that needs to be.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He will also discuss his decision to pass the torch to Vice President \u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Kamala\u2064 Harris<\/a> intending to be part \u2064of the historical \u2064fabric \u2064of his presidency. Her potential candidacy is set\u200b to\u200d be unveiled in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>Following his remarks, \u2062which are expected to be watched by tens of millions of Americans, Biden will fly to Delaware to spend a long Easter weekend with his family, and to \u200dparticipate in a solemn church service on Sunday, \u200dplanning to return to the White House\u200b on Monday for a day of work.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Biden&nbsp;to tell primetime audience passing the torch to Harris is &lsquo;best way to unite our nation&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1712419\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Joe Biden <\/a>will portray his decision to drop out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2024-elections\/\">2024<\/a> race during his highly-anticipated primetime address to the nation as his last act in defense of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/democracy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>democracy<\/a>, according to experts.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The defense of democracy is more important than any title,&rdquo; Biden is expected to say from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/section\/news\/white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>White House<\/a>&lsquo;s Oval Office on Wednesday, according to his prepared remarks. &ldquo;I draw strength, and find joy, in working for the American people. But this sacred task of perfecting our Union is not about me. It&rsquo;s about you. Your families. Your futures. It&rsquo;s about &lsquo;We the People.&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I have decided the best way forward is to pass the torch to a new generation,&rdquo; he will say. &ldquo;That is the best way to unite our nation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In his remarks, written in consultation with longtime aide Mike Donilon and only his fourth to be delivered from the Oval Office, he will also say: &ldquo;The great thing about America is here, kings and dictators do not rule. The people do. History is in your hands. The power is in your hands. The idea of America &ndash; lies in your hands.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Across the street, people are gathering in Lafayette Square as part of a thank you rally for Biden organized by more liberal organization MoveOn. <\/p>\n<p>Biden not seeking reelection means that the end of his administration on Jan. 20 will end his time in Washington, D.C., to which he first started commuting in 1973 after he became one of the youngest senators in history, then a newly widowed father-of-two. His first wife Neilia and their one-year-old daughter Naomi died in a holiday car crash months earlier.<\/p>\n<p>After 36 years in the Senate, former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/barack-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Barack Obama<\/a> chose him to be his two-term vice president before discouraging him from contesting the presidency against eventual 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, one year after he lost his eldest son Beau to cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday night&rsquo;s address, the first of its kind since former President Lyndon Johnson made a similar announcement in 1968, will be the second public comments Biden has made about his decision to stand aside, other than his letter last weekend and social media post endorsing Harris.<\/p>\n<p>Calling into Harris&rsquo;s first appearance at their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-5-ore-counties-vote-on-leaving-state-residents-want-to-detach-from-deep-blue-state-and-join-greater-idaho\/\" title=\"Report: 5 Ore. counties vote on leaving state, residents want to detach from deep blue state and join Greater Idaho\">campaign headquarters<\/a> in Wilmington, Delaware on Monday as a presidential candidate before later that night she became the presumptive Democratic nominee, Biden underscored his pride in their team and promised that he is &ldquo;not going anywhere.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I know yesterday&rsquo;s news is surprising and it&rsquo;s hard for you to hear, but it was the right thing to do,&rdquo; Biden told about 100 aides, some of whom were crying.&nbsp;&ldquo;I know it&rsquo;s hard because you&rsquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-trump-calls-embattled-republican-lawmaker-marjorie-taylor-greene\/\" title=\"President Trump Calls Embattled Republican Lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene\">ve poured<\/a> your heart and soul into me to help us win this thing, help me get this nomination, help me win the nomination and then go on to win the presidency&hellip; I know how hard you&rsquo;ve worked, how many sacrifices you&rsquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/these-people-were-vicious-i-saw-all-kinds-of-illegal-behavior-michigan-election-witness-who-saw-4-am-illegal-ballot-drop-for-biden-speaks-out-video\/\" title=\"&quot;These People Were Vicious - I Saw All Kinds of Illegal Behavior&quot; - Michigan Election Witness Who Saw 4 AM Illegal Ballot Drop for Biden Speaks Out (VIDEO)\">ve made<\/a>, and so many of you uprooted your lives for me.&rdquo;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>As campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez, a former Harris <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Senate<\/a> staffer, held up a phone to the microphone of a podium set up in a room decorated with new &ldquo;Harris&rdquo; signs, Biden implored the group to &ldquo;embrace&rdquo; Harris because &ldquo;she&rsquo;s the best,&rdquo; adding &ldquo;the name has changed at the top of the ticket, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/delegates-have-enough-support-for-vice-president-harris-to-become-the-democratic-nominee-for-president-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Delegates have enough support for Vice President Harris to become the Democratic nominee for president - Washington Examiner\">mission hasn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We still need to save this democracy,&rdquo; Biden said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve got six months left of my presidency, and I&rsquo;m determined to get as much done as I possibly can, both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/section\/policy\/foreign-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>foreign policy <\/a>and domestic policy; keep <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/inflation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>lowering costs<\/a> for families; continue to speak out on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/guns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>guns<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/child-care\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>childcare<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/seniors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>eldercare<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/drugs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>prescription drugs<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>climate<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Climate still is the existential threat that we face, and if we don&rsquo;t win this thing, it&rsquo;s all in jeopardy,&rdquo; he went on.&nbsp;&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got to keep working for an end to the war in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/gaza\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Gaza<\/a>. I&rsquo;ll be working very closely with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Israelis<\/a> and with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/palestinians\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Palestinians<\/a> to try to work out how we can get the Gaza war to end, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/middle-east\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Middle East<\/a> peace, and get all those hostages home.&nbsp;I think we&rsquo;re on a verge of being able to do that.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Harris repeatedly praised Biden during the event, reiterating that she loved him and that his 50-year career had been consequential, in addition to during her first rally as his heir apparent in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Tuesday and during an official stop for the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated&rsquo;s Grand Boul&eacute; in Indianapolis, Indiana on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In this moment, I believe we face a choice between two different visions for our nation: one focused on the future, the other focused on the past,&rdquo; the vice president said Wednesday. &ldquo;With your support, I am fighting for our nation&rsquo;s future.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We know when we organize, mountains move. When we mobilize, nations change. And when we vote, we make history,&rdquo; she continued. &ldquo;So let&rsquo;s continue to fight with optimism, with faith, and with hope. Because when we fight, we win.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Nationally, Trump has an average 2 percentage point edge on Harris in early polling conducted this month since the debate, according to&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/polls\/president\/general\/2024\/trump-vs-harris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RealClearPolitics<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1712419\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1712419\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ia posts this \u2063week. &ldquo;You don&rsquo;t have to be a president \u2062or vice \u2063president to be\u200d a leader. Any of you can be a leader,&rdquo; Biden is expected to tell Americans. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s in \u2064your hands. Let us restore the soul of America and take \u200ddemocracy, that&rsquo;s at risk, to a place that needs to be.&rdquo; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2652,"featured_media":2307608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/kamala-harris-extremist.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3620,36087,16600,32076],"class_list":["post-2307607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-biden","tag-nation-unite","tag-primetime","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/kamala-harris-extremist.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2652"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2307607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2307608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2307607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2307607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2307607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}