We have three months and a handful of days, and it will be time for all registered voters in America (who did not vote by mail in advance) to go to the polls. The general election is Tuesday, November 5, 2024. In Pennsylvania, we will be making decisions about who we want to be our State Representatives, who we want to be our State Senators in odd-numbered districts, who we want our U.S. Congress persons to be, and who we want for U.S. Senator. Then, of course, at the very top of the ticket is who we want the President of the United States to be and their running mate as Vice President.
In the last couple of weeks, as history would have it, in America, we’ve seen a sitting President become almost a laughing stock on late-night TV, not me laughing–but the comedians and late-night talk show hosts, over what so many are calling am embarrassing showing at the first debate of this political season which was broadcast on CNN. A lot of political pundits and watchdogs have declared that President Joe Biden failed miserably during that debate against Donald Trump.
I would also note that at age 81, to stand up for two hours straight and be drilled about everything from foreign policy to the economy at home and everything in between, I would think that even a man or woman half that age would look a little tired and drained. I do not know this for certain, however, it is my belief that the President has not been well for some time and because of his love and commitment to our nation, just kept pushing himself because, truly, I believe he wanted to stay in the race.
It was after that poor showing at the CNN debate that the pressure started pouring in from fellow Democrats, Republicans, and others that Biden should take himself out of the running for the White House. At first, it was looking like President Biden would not bend to the cries for him to step aside, but before the end of the pressure, COVID came back on the president. This was not his first time contracting COVID, and like the last time, he had to self-isolate–news reports indicated that although he diagnosed positive for COVID, the president continued to work from his home in Rehoboth, Delaware.
It was while recuperating from COVID that President Biden came to probably the single most difficult decision of his life–and that was to step aside and endorse his Vice President, Kamala Harris, to carry the race to the finish line.
President Joe Biden announced Sunday that he will end his presidential re-election campaign, bringing an abrupt and humbling conclusion to his half-century-long political career and scrambling the race for the White House less than four months before Election Day. Biden, 81, could not reverse growing sentiment within his party that he was too frail to serve and destined to lose to Donald Trump in November. He backed Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him as the Democratic nominee.
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