Biden Says Exiting Race Earlier Would Not Have Mattered

Former President Joe Biden told the BBC that he doesn’t know “that it would have made much difference” if he had withdrawn from the 2024 presidential race earlier.

Said Biden: “I don’t think it would have mattered. We left at a time when we had a good candidate. She was fully funded.”

He added: “It was hard to say, ‘Now I’ll stop now.’ I meant what I said when I started, that I’m preparing to hand this to the next generation, the transition government. But things moved so quickly that it made it difficult to walk away, and it was a hard decision.” 

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