The president returns to the White House as Harris continues campaigning

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24 July 2024, 20:09(2 years ago)

President Joe Biden returned to the White House Tuesday after a week of events he spent completely away from public attention. However, he became the principal news after the decision to give up the competition for re-election. Meanwhile, as American Voice correspondent Anita Powell announces, the vice president [...]

The White House has been quiet since President Biden's decision to withdraw from the race.

The president returned to the White House on Tuesday after remaining nearly a week isolated because of the touch by Covid. Vice President Kamala Harris already began her campaign in Wisconsin.

Senator JD Vance, the republican candidate for vice president, decided that day to attack both Democrats.

“History will remember Joe Biden as one of America's worst presidents. But Kamala Harris is a million times worse. She supported every fall of Joe Biden and lied about his mental ability to serve as president”, Mr. Vance said.

In Washington, State Secretary Antony Blinken praised Mrs. Harris' role in American foreign policy.

But he stressed the many jobs President Biden has ahead of him, even though Mrs. Harris is campaigning to become President.

“He is intensely focused on the work that remains during the next six months to continue efforts, the work we have done, especially to bring peace to the Middle East, ending the war in Gaza”, Mr. Blinken said.

Analysts Take Same Attitude

This presidential mandate has remained for six months and still has real challenges, both in the country, in terms of lowering the cost of living and challenges abroad. Efforts to achieve a ceasefire and peace in the Middle East and efforts to counter Russia's war in Ukraine” continue, says Navin Nayak, president of the Center for the American Progress Action Fund.

This situation also puts foreign leaders in an unusual position, as is the case with the Israeli prime minister, who will meet with President Beden, Vice President Harris and former President Trump this week.

“I think Beden has a problem since foreign leaders know he won't be president in a few months. They will hesitate to make deals with her because they know that anyone who comes after even if Mrs. Harris wins, she will likely have her own foreign policy team and its goals. On the other hand, I think some foreign leaders will want to do what they can quickly with President Biden, because they are not sure what will happen next”, says Jeremi Suri of Texas University in Austin.

For the second time this month, President Biden will address the nation by the Oval Office. Tonight, he will provide more clarifications as to why he made the decision to withdraw. / VOA