After his decision to quit the November presidential race, Joe Biden has again come under pressure to resign as the President of United States.
Speaker of the House of Representatives said on Sunday that the US leader must resign as president “immediately.”
“If Joe Biden is not fit to run for president, he is not fit to serve as president. He must resign from the office immediately. November 5 cannot arrive soon enough,” Speaker Mike Johnson, a top Republican said in a statement.
The end finally came shortly after Biden had been diagnosed with COVID-19, forcing him off the campaign trail and into isolation in Rehoboth Beach.
Biden’s decision to pull out of the Nov election also caps a tense and chaotic period in the US election, with former President, Donald Trump having survived an assassination attempt at a campaign rally on July 13.
Biden joins a small club of US presidents who have decided to throw in the towel after just one term, with the last being Lyndon Johnson in 1968 — a year also marked by political turmoil and violence.
In recent weeks, the Biden campaign has reportedly been quietly carrying out a head-to-head survey of voters measuring how she matched up against Trump.
While Harris struggled to make an impact in her first years in the White House, she emerged last year as a strong performer on the campaign trail on key messages such as abortion rights.
The former prosecutor has also made much of her life story as the first woman in US history to hold the vice presidency, as well as the first person of Black and South Asian origin.
Barring opposition from her party, Harris is now set to be nominated at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on August 19 in what promises to be a dramatic moment — and a heartrending one for Biden.
Biden took office in January 2021 pledging to heal the “soul of America” after four turbulent years under Trump and the shock of the January 6, 2021, Capitol assault by his supporters.
