What Will Be the Result of Biden Dropping Out of Presidential Race?

The topic of discussion for this Constitution Monday concerns President Joe Biden’s decision today to drop out of the 2024 presidential campaign and to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris. His decision was announced on X – rather than by personal announcement.

Democrats are calling Biden a “hero” for putting his political party and the nation ahead of his personal desires. Republicans are calling for Biden to resign from the office of President of the United States. The reasoning behind the call is that he is not fit to remain in office if he is unfit to campaign. An opinion published in the Deseret News after the announcement made the following response. 

The statement, in other words, was presidential, remarkably so because of the pain that we all know lies under the stoic words.

To call Joe Biden a hero is aggrandizement, and unfair to the true heroes in our midst, the kind who run into buildings hit by planes and pull people out of burning cars. Biden is a politician who has enjoyed a long and prestigious career that the sun is setting on. Ask the average person on the street what Biden’s biggest accomplishment in public service is, and before today, they might have struggled to answer. Now he’s most likely to be remembered, above all, for the statement he issued today and the reasons for it: doubts about his capacity to serve another four years and to win the election.

Stepping away from power is not always a sign of defeat. Our first president, George Washington, famously relinquished power twice: first, as commander in chief of the Continental Army, and later at the end of his second term as president, at a time in which he could have been elected again.

Biden’s story, of course, is much different, and in exiting, he has bestowed on the nation the sort of thing that C.S. Lewis called a “severe mercy,” putting America out of the misery we’ve all been in, to one extent or another, since the agonizing debate June 27.

It’s often said that America is so divided that we can’t agree on anything at all. The past eight days [have] shown that to be untrue. We agreed, as the Rev. Theresa Dear wrote, that none of us want to see Secret Service agents diving on top of presidential candidates under fire. And we agreed that, no matter how well meaning a person is, no matter how beloved within their party, no matter how they have performed in the past, when the time comes to step down, we should do so with dignity, and not have to be pulled off the stage with a vaudeville hook.

You could almost feel the nation exhaling in relief as the news circulated Sunday afternoon.

Many Americans were aware that Biden had cognitive problems during the 2020 presidential campaign, and he has steadily become worse. First Lady Jill Biden and other family members have propped him up, and other Democrats and the mainstream media have covered for him. However, his condition could not be hidden from the whole nation and the entire world after he had such a disastrous debate a month ago with Donald Trump.

In my opinion, Biden is a victim of elder abuse because he has only been a puppet of those who are really running the United States government. He should not have been the candidate in 2020, and he definitely should not be the candidate in 2024. For his sake, I am grateful that this decision has finally been made – no matter who actually made the decision.