According to reports, President Biden initially delayed passing the torch to Vice President Kamala Harris over concerns his Vice President couldn’t defeat Donald Trump.
Harris is polling worse than Biden in many nationwide polls.
From The New York Post:
Still, Biden ultimately ended up endorsing Harris, 59, when he revealed he was stepping aside Sunday — weeks after his train wreck debate against Trump threw his campaign into disarray.
Biden and Harris spoke repeatedly over the phone in the hours before the bombshell announcement was made public, sources said.
Harris, on her part, spent more than 10 hours making frantic calls to more than 100 Democratic party leaders, politicians and donors to rally support, one source told CNN.
Former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton were among the flurry of calls she placed, according to the source.
While Bill and Hillary Clinton wasted little time in publicly backing Harris, Obama didn’t immediately offer up his endorsement — saying Democrats would pick an unnamed “outstanding nominee.”
“We will be navigating uncharted waters in the days ahead,” Obama said. “But I have extraordinary confidence that the leaders of our party will be able to create a process from which an outstanding nominee emerges.”
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Biden delayed dropping out partly because he doubted Kamala Harris’ chances against Trump: report https://t.co/CiQSRstkdn pic.twitter.com/cTqUVjWo5O
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