Biden, positive for Covid
It should be noted that the President of the United States, Joe Biden tests positive for COVID-19 next Wednesday, forcing him to cancel his attendance at a campaign event in Las Vegas where he had planned to address the Hispanic community. White House spokesman Karine Jean-Pierrehas reported that Biden, 81, has returned to his Delaware hometown to continue working in isolation.
Despite mild symptoms such as a runny nose and cough, the president, who has been vaccinated and is receiving a booster dose, said he was feeling fine. Biden participated in an interview and met with supporters before his diagnosis. In addition, Janet Murguiapresident of UnidosUS, confirmed the cancellation of the event. During the day, Biden, in the middle of the increasing tensions within his party In order to abandon his re-election aspirations, he promised to reconsider his presidential candidacy if a doctor diagnosed him with an illness. About 20 members of Congress have spoken out against his candidacy, the last to do so before Obama was influential California Representative Adam Schiff.
His political party is in a complicated position due to fears that, as a result of the poor performance of the president in the debate against his future rival, Donald Trumpwill not be able to defeat him in the elections to be held on November 8. The Republican candidate, for his part, has received almost unanimous support from his party since the assassination attempt this weekend.
Biden will reconsider his candidacy
A day earlier, Biden had assured that he would reconsider his presidential candidacy if a doctor diagnosed him with an illness amid rising internal tensions, causing him to abandon his re-election aspirations. “If the doctors came to me and said, 'You have this problem, this other problem,'” he said in response to a question from the reporter. Ed Gordon in an interview with BET News Announced on Wednesday by the American media and broadcast in full tonight.
Biden acknowledged that he did not expect his candidacy to be “so divisive.” “I think I've shown that I know how to get things done for the country,” he stressed, adding that there is still much to be done and that he refuses to give up on his mission despite everything. The influential Democratic representative from California, Adam SchiffBiden publicly asked on Wednesday to withdraw his candidacy after his failure in last month's debate against his Republican rival, former President Donald Trump, and amid criticism over his health.
Criticism has intensified in the past two weeks after Biden confused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during the summit of the NATO which was held in Washington, or Kamala Harris with Donald Trump, during a press conference.
